Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of May 7, 1882

Overview

Cosima prepares a boys' choir for R.'s birthday while he spends a sociable day with the Grosses and continues practical work with Levi and Heckel. The first strains of Parsifal in rehearsal make the new phase of the season feel tangible at last.

Content

Sunday, May 7:

A warm day, and I go to the school to listen to the boys’ choir, which I wish to have sing on his birthday. It moves me greatly! Lunch with our friends the Grosses, R. in very good spirits. While he is resting, I hear Herr Jager singing something from Parsifal - very well, it seems to me. In the evening, further decisions made with Levi and Heckel.