Sunday, June 12:
Breakfast all together, then with our guests to the Lion of Lucerne, while R. works. At lunch R. is very lively and good-humored; he starts talking about musicians, “who are wild beasts, not educated creatures, very close in fact to actors. To demand of our present-day musicians, with their quintets, trios, cantatas, etc., that they conduct, is like suddenly demanding from a writer of novels that he play comic roles.”
At five o’clock we accompany our guests to the railroad station; then home; glorious weather, lovely moonlight; after supper W. Meister, R. reads the scene between Mignon and Wilhelm wonderfully (the egg dance).