Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of December 22, 1877

Overview

A fresh copy of the Parsifal text arrives, and Wagner is pleased with the day's musical progress. After practical outings together, the evening is spent in their usual pattern of reading and listening.

Content

Saturday, December 22:

Arrival of the copies of the Parsifal text; R. works, and is satisfied with a “middle voice” he wrote today. We go out together once more to the tailor’s, then to the palace gardens.

In the evening the history of the Arabs and an interlude from Rapp’s col...