Correspondence with the Aachen Music Festival Committee, which boasts that in the year ’57 it performed compositions by R. and thereby incurred many inconveniences; in recompense they now desire Herr Vogl at the beginning of June!! … R. out of humour with Vienna; a journey there seems improbable.
He begins the instrumentation of the march, yet must rewrite the first two pages once again! — Herr Feustel reports that the funds (of the enterprise) are exhausted. Dejection; added to this, R. feels rheumatism in his right hand. — Spring draws near. In the evening “Don Quixote”.
Revised English translation by Jo Cousins [© Jo Cousins | WAGNER Salon]