R. nevertheless still greatly exhausted; he complains that he has entirely lost his memory for names — lately he had wished to mention Wilhelm, and the name wholly escaped him. He attends the second rehearsal of Siegfried with piano accompaniment, after having in the morning supervised the orchestral rehearsal (the tempi still but little understood by Richter), ‘he paints too many four-four bars,’ says R. I receive the Countesses Usedom in the evening; R. joins us late, vexed that the Kapellmeisters (Eckert, Levi) spoke so unkindly about Unger.
Revised English translation by Jo Cousins [© Jo Cousins | WAGNER Salon]