Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of January 5, 1877

Overview

The day was spent working and then discussing Fidi’s future, with an emphasis on inheritance, education, and the possibility of his creative development. R. even imagined a work written for him far in the future, underscoring how long-term the family’s artistic thinking had become.

Content

Friday, January 5:

Work with Lusch. After lunch R. talks about Fidi's education and his future: he would already have enough to occupy him if he were to take over his father's intellectual heritage, win and create new ground for his ideas.

R. also says he would write Parzival for him, making the condition that it be produced 30 years after our death (R.'s and my death).