Category: The WAGNER Map

For some time I have not written. On Thursday a rehearsal of the three acts consecutively took place, after which R. and the singers deemed a rehearsal in costume to be superfluous. Friday 17th (17th March, 1876)On the 17th. R. completes the American March and receives for it five thousand…

The first orchestral rehearsal; I am present at it. A profound impression. A drive with R. to Charlottenburg; we contemplate Queen Luise, loveliness in suffering [1]. — R. can to-day write but a single page of the score; in the evening Wilhelm Scholz.[2] [1] The tomb of Queen Louise of…

Today R. writes five pages of the score [1], there being no rehearsal. Annoyance with our friend Feustel, who has not gone to Herr Erlanger, and reports that “the situation is dangerous, though not without hope!” — We drive out with R.; Berlin pleases him better than Vienna. Astonishment at…

For R., the score and rehearsal (the last arranging rehearsal, with much vexation over the decorations); for me, Meister Eckhart and several letters of thanks. Sorrowful news from Lulu at the convent.

Days of silence. This night a letter arrived by express; I believed it to be news from Paris—it was but the notification from Philadelphia that R.’s conditions are accepted. — I write to the children. I now write once more to Paris, in order to learn something! … R. orchestrates…

A letter from the 2nd, which had remained lying in Bayreuth, reaches me today; it announces an illness not deemed dangerous. A despatch from Schuré, in reply to an inquiry from R., reports that my mother was already interred yesterday! … All inquiries addressed to Claire remain without answer! —…

R. had the first rehearsal [1] today, and was not exactly dissatisfied; only that nobility and the dark glow are wholly lacking in the principal singer. We then drove to Doepler and examined the beautiful costumes for the “Ring”; they are indeed most handsome, manifold and simple, an entire culture…

No tidings yet from the children. Visits from nephew Jachmann and the Eckerts; in the afternoon I went to Mimi [1], then to the Hülsens; R. has an interview with Simson in reference to the Fürstner affair, and returns satisfied. — Dinner at the house of the Schleinitzes; in the…