Category: March 1876

R. dreams that I cast myself into the water, and awakens in tears and cries; it astonishes me, for never have I thought so much, and with such longing, of death. In the evening the “Kladderadatsch”, which contains much drollery concerning the performance of “Tristan und Isolde”! — Mr. Tribert…

Loldi ill, caught a cold; I divide my time between her and the lessons. R. is not altogether well.

Meeting, at which the machinist Brandt once more displays his entire superiority; he alone knows what to do; the ceiling, which can no longer be executed here, is to be painted upon canvas by the Brückners. Traduzione in italiano di Claudia Bilotti [© Claudia Bilotti | WAGNER Salon] Revised English…

Received visitors! The newspapers report that R. is to become General Music Director; then that he is selling the theatre to the Empire (!!!), then again the Faust project! R. discusses with the Mayor the forlorn condition of the theatre. News of the great success of the second performance. Traduzione…

Honoured Sir, I truly regret that I have not yet been able to secure the free time requisite to express myself concerning your alto violin so fully as I deem necessary, in order that I on my part might contribute to obtaining for this instrument the attention which is its due….

Household affairs and the children’s lessons. In the afternoon I drove out to the theatre; great alarm at the conditions there, it seems impossible that it should be completed in time! … In the evening, “Don Quixote,” the splendid scene in which he gives Sancho counsel upon entering his governorship….

Letters written; a despatch from Eckert reporting the great success of the second performance. In the evening Herr Rubinstein, conflicts!

Most honoured Herr Doctor,     The time has now arrived when I must come to an understanding with you regarding the interpretation of the various contracts or bonds which I concluded and signed with the firm of B. Schott’s Sons for the purpose of obtaining various advances, amounting together (if I mistake…

Brief and to the point! Here the “questions to be settled”, which Doepler handed to me in Berlin: be so good as simply to note, beside each number, what you will undertake, and what, on the other hand, Doepler is to undertake. Your dear Herr Bruder was of the greatest importance to…