Wednesday, October 27:
A letter from our friend Feustel pleases R. very much; he says people of this efficient, practical sort are the kind he likes best.
A letter from the King, requesting us to come to Munich in the second part of Nov., causes dejection. Is it that he does not wish to see R., or that he does not want him to know about his private performances (Aida, Louis XIV plays)? R. sends Herr v. Burkel a telegram, saying he has to be in Munich during the first half of the month.
I go to the Belle Arti to look at Longhi's Concert, which caught R.'s attention; he says he likes pictures of this sort. We go to an antiquarian's; there R. discovers some nice Renaissance fabric, which we buy at once.
In the evening he revises his work. He recalls the Mozart symphony in D major, whose allegro movement he prefers to that of the C major symphony. In the evening he gets Rub. to play it, and he shows us how everything in it can be seen as a dance.