Thursday - Running From The Rain

Wagner’s wife didn’t limit herself to dictating his autobiography, but made her own notes, which the composer himself wrote in a letter to Ludwig II: “At the same time, she keeps an unusually detailed diary for our son, in which my condition, the results of my work are recorded every day, my random statements. " For a long time, these diaries were not destined to fulfill their direct purpose - to show the descendants what the great Richard Wagner was like at home. The fact is that Eva, the second daughter of Wagner and Cosima, forbade the publication of her mother’s notes. According to her will, only 30 years after her own death, these diaries could be extracted from the closed family archives. Eve died in 1942, and only in 1972, the diaries of Cosima Wagner (with notes) saw the light of day.