Wednesday, April 26:
Many disturbances: visit to the office of the royal household, notifications of banquets and tributes, which alarm R., fears of the concert.
In the evening with the conductor Eckert; all good people but, it seems, bad musicians.
Cosima's Diaries
Diary Entry of April 26, 1871
Overview
Berlin immediately surrounds Richard with official calls, banquets, tributes, and concert anxieties. Cosima sees goodwill in the people they meet but doubts the musicianship around him. The public machinery of honor already feels more alarming than gratifying.