Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of August 15, 1877

Overview

The household prepares for departure, while others around them celebrate public honors and complain that he has been overlooked. Later, a sculptor arrives with plans for a bust, but the composer is reluctant to pose and seems uneasy about being turned into a public monument.

Content

Wednesday, August 15:

Departure! At the station the Riedel Society, going to Nürnberg for the jubilee celebrations of the Germanic Museum; my father is very indignant that R. was not invited to them, and also that it did not occur to Eisenach to make R. an honorary citizen! ...

In the evening a sculptor from Leipzig, who has been commissioned to make a large bust of R. for the theater, comes. A private citizen is donating it. R. is reluctant to sit for it.