Cosima WAGNER. 6 L.A.S. "Cose," "Cosima"... - Lot 102 - Ader

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Cosima WAGNER. 6 L.A.S. "Cose," "Cosima"... - Lot 102 - Ader
Cosima WAGNER. 6 L.A.S. "Cose," "Cosima" or initials, [Berlin and Paris April-December 1862], to her half-sister Claire de Charnacé; 24 pages in-8 filled with small handwriting. Very beautiful and long letters on music and politics, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, on his relations with his mother, and on Wagner. [Berlin end of April]. The letter is written on watermarked paper with the effigy of Christ: "What a religious time we live in"... It evokes the trombonist Moritz Nabich: "Nine years ago he was recommended to Mrs. Patersi by my father [Liszt], he was leaving the orchestra in Weimar to virtuoso in Europe; [....I believe I had the honor of accompanying him and I attribute to him the bouts of half deafness that visit me every six or eight months. For my part I heard nothing, I do not know if he played or shouted Italian airs or classical music (?) I only know that our walls were on the verge of becoming like those of Jericho. As for the pianist Charles Wehle, "he is a pleasant mediocrity, a very obliging honest boy, and just Jewish enough to make his way, which does not mean career. We had here for eight days Antoine Rubinstein, a powerful organization, a clear-cut personality, a firm and honest character, a bold and ambitious spirit, full of himself but not in the way of mediocre people, that is to say, preoccupied with his artistic future, disdaining honors but wanting glory, not ideal enough in his aspirations and views to make a typical artist, but original enough, strong enough to be a remarkable artist. What his works and his person lack, sensitivity, is compensated by a Cyclopean strength; I doubt that he is attached to anyone while courting everyone, his artistic development deserves to be followed, I wonder if he will realize a great conception [...] Holy week was sanctified by Bach's Passion and Beethoven's mass - two immensities, my dear Bugler! The first one moves you, purifies you, turns you in on yourself, makes you love, adore the man of sorrows, the second one is a Titan assault, the man conquering his God and exalting him, with a pomp and a joy that has something of the joy of a creator. This egalitarian piety is terrifying, it is man face to face with God, understanding him, speaking to him, loving him"... Etc. She cannot go to Paris: "I remain in Berlin, going more and more into my shell, and understanding life less and less! - Have you read Les Misérables, for my part I have sobbed them, hold my Bugler, that is how I feel, and Faustine, Valjean, Bishop Myriel, Sister Simplice are my friends much more than all those who buzz in my life. Mama has re-subscribed me to Le Temps; however, she writes to me so stiffly that I almost wish she hadn't; I must have done something. To the grace of Caprice" .... [Berlin end of June-beginning of July]. "My soul has more fire than you have ashes, my heart has more love than you have forgetfulness! She is going to leave for Bieberich: "Perhaps I will be able to escape, perhaps I will be nailed like the Loreley to the banks of the Rhine; I have come to have too little willpower to fight with advantage against any opposition, and I am like a boat adrift I obey the wind that wants to push me"... She evokes Claire's criticism of Félicien David's Lalla Roukh: "I didn't expect much, and I figured it would be even emptier than Le Désert (if possible!).)"... She evokes the end of her collaboration with the Revue germanique of Charles Dollfus, "because of Daniel Stern" [pseudonym of her mother Marie d'Agoult] and his observations: "I do not have the gift of defending my ideas, even less that of abandoning them, it results from it that I like to be left alone, and that this passion in me dominates all the others"... Then about Proudhon's book, La Guerre et la Paix: "the majority of the democrats are sympathetic to Italy and consider a little like renegades those who maintain that the outlet to the Adriatic Sea is indispensable to the prosperity of Germany... Finally, on the emergence of a "fourth class which "is nothing and will see everything" [...] the day when it will be of age it will not care much about the night cap democracy, about the dithering liberals, about all the bourgeoisie as rapacious, as pitiless, as disdainful as the aristocracy in the time of its power"... September 9. She is back in Berlin, and taken by her occupations... " The state that I would prefer would be to be completely dead except for the ears and what is necessary of brain, of senses, and of soul to enjoy music, and then to have music as one has water, when one plunges into the sea, but I would like to have arch-human music, of the one that I like to pre
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