Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of June 14, 1874

Overview

Cold weather keeps the household tightly gathered, with business letters handled while the children are at church and plans are made for singers and conductors. The day ends in a private walk and a renewed sense of affection, followed by encouraging news from Weimar that confirms the growing excitement around Tristan und Isolde.

Content

Sunday, June 14:

Very cold weather; in the morning R. calls to me that I should put on two furs for our coffee in the summerhouse. As the children are in church, we can settle various things, letter to the singer Scaria, also to Sascha Ritter about the conductor’s post in Hamburg.

In the afternoon I had been hoping for Götterdämmerung, but it did not happen. No music in the evening, either, since the Chancellery goes with Richter to see the Coburg opera company, now playing here, in the hope of perhaps discovering someone there. R. and I walk in the garden in the evening, deeply conscious within ourselves of our love!

Late in the evening a telegram from Fritzsch in Weimar: Tristan und Isolde is arousing transports of enthusiasm there. Since he sent it off after the first act, it reminds R. of the telegram from N. Homolatsch, after the first act of Die Walküre.