Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of February 11, 1878

Overview

Richard revises What Is German? for the Bayreuther Blatter despite waking with a headache under a stubbornly gray sky. News of a student performance of the Siegfried Idyll offers a small outward sign of recognition before the evening returns quietly to Walter Scott.

Content

Monday, February 11:

R. revises What Is German? for the Bayreuther Blätter. He awoke with a headache. The sky remains gray; in the past four months it has cleared only for my birthday and at Candlemas. In their concert the students of Jena gave, as they tell us, the first public performance of the Siegfried Idyll. W. Scott in the evening.