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¹ Schenker’s diary for this day records: “Weisse reports several of Prof. Guido Adler's comical and sheep-headed ideas. Thus, for example, "thoroughbass is the study of harmony" and "C.P.E. Bach's book teaches continuo playing"; "analysis is self-explanatory – its task, however, is more style-critical." Adler has expanded the dissertation topic suggested by Weisse, "Schubert, Chopin, Brahms," to include Strauss and Lanner; and he is already delighted that perhaps new names can be added!!” [The general topic of Weisse's PhD thesis, the waltz as an art-form in the 19th century, was completed for the University of Vienna in 1919.]

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