[892W-{8/20/76} From a letter by Berthold Kellermann to his parents, reporting on the final performance of the RING and the subsequent celebrations: WR, p. 250]
[P. 250] {FEUER} “A certain Count Apponyi from Hungary spoke next. He spoke in the form of a parable, taking his text from Wagner’s Nibelungs: ‘Bruennhilde (the new national art) lay asleep upon a rock surrounded by a great fire. The god Wotan had lit this fire, and only the victorious and finest hero, a hero who did not know fear, was to win her as his bride. Around the rock were mountains of ash and clinker (the miscegenation of our own music with non-German elements). Along came a hero, the like of whom had never been seen before, Richard Wagner, who forged a weapon from the shards of the sword of his fathers (the classical German masters), and with this he penetrated the fire and with his kiss awoke the sleeping Bruennhilde.” [892W-{8/20/76} From a letter by Berthold Kellermann to his parents, reporting on the final performance of the RING and the subsequent celebrations: WR, p. 250]
[893W-{9/9/76}CD Vol. I, p. 922]
[P. 922] “Costumes, scenery, everything must be done anew for the repeat performances. R. is very sad, says he wishes he could die!” [893W-{9/9/76}CD Vol. I, p. 922]
[894W-{12/21/77} CD Vol I, p. 1007]
[P. 1007] {FEUER} “R. has survived his rhythmical battle and tells me when he comes from his work, ‘Today I have set a philosophical precept to music: ‘Hence space becomes time.’ He says he is now about to start on something in which ‘bits of dramatic nonsense’ will be of no help to him!” [894W-{12/21/77} CD Vol I, p. 1007]
[895W-{78-82?}Notes of uncertain date, presumably from 1878-1882: PW Vol. VIII, p. 391]
[P. 391] {SCHOP} {FEUER} “But the sage (or ‘Wiser, however’] – morally – Love, Holiness (more instinctive, with decreasing intellectuality).” [895W-{78-82?}Notes of uncertain date, presumably from 1878-1882: PW Vol. VIII, p. 391]
[896W-{78-82?}Notes of uncertain date, presumably from 1878-1882: PW Vol. VIII, p. 391]
[P. 391] {anti-FEUER} “Reality surely to be explained by Ideality, not the other way round. A religious dogma may embrace the whole real world: let anyone try, on the contrary, to illustrate Religion from the real world.” [896W-{78-82?}Notes of uncertain date, presumably from 1878-1882: PW Vol. VIII, p. 391]
[897W-{78-82?}Notes of uncertain date, presumably from 1878-1882: PW Vol. VIII, p. 392]
[P. 392] {FEUER} “By God, speaking strictly, man seeks to figure to himself a being not subject to the sorrows of existence (of the world), and consequently above the world – now this is Jesus
