Wagner and his Isolde . , a conductor atthe Mayence Opera, drove across the Rhinebridge at Castel and through Mayence to theSchotts villa at Laubenheim. There, withBiilow at the piano, Fraulein Genast sangthe five songs, Dreams included, for thebenefit of the head of the house of Schott, whois represented by Weissheimer as gleefullyrubbing his hands as he walked up and downthe room while listening to the music, andfinally taking the manuscript from Wagnerand carefully locking it in a closet. The remaining letters are interesting, foreverything Wagner wrote is it was already
Wagner and his Isolde . , a conductor atthe Mayence Opera, drove across the Rhinebridge at Castel and through Mayence to theSchotts villa at Laubenheim. There, withBiilow at the piano, Fraulein Genast sangthe five songs, Dreams included, for thebenefit of the head of the house of Schott, whois represented by Weissheimer as gleefullyrubbing his hands as he walked up and downthe room while listening to the music, andfinally taking the manuscript from Wagnerand carefully locking it in a closet. The remaining letters are interesting, foreverything Wagner wrote is it was already noticeable in the Parisletters that, while these teemed with graphicdescriptions of people and events, they werenot, on the whole, as introspective or asdeeply steeped in the psychological romanceof which Mathilde was the heroine and he thehero as his journals and letters from letters become fewer, and there is evenless of this fascinating introspective qualityin the correspondence which follows the Paris 246. Mathildk Wesexdonk (1864)After a Bas Relief by Joseph Kopf THE FABRIC OF DREAMS period. Wagner .was at work again, and on athoroughly sane topic, the Meistersinger ;since leaving the Green Hill he had seen Ma-thilde but rarely, and—Cosima had appearedupon the scene. Wendelin Weissheimer sayssignificantly, with reference to certain epi-sodes of the Billows Biebrich visit to Wag-ner, coming events cast their shadows be-fore. In fact, the heart, the soul, of thecorrespondence lie in the passages I alreadyhave given. one loves but once Once more indeed the old love flared up inclear flame. It was at Penzing, near Vienna,in June, 1863. Harassed by debts, Wagnerseems to have sought relief from his miseryby writing to Frau Wille, pleading that hecould not write to Mathilde for fear his sur-charged heart would lead him to say toomuch. Again, he writes, I have been lookingthrough the green portfolio which she sentme when I was in Venice. How much suffer-ing I have exp
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