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... faithfully guided by the most divine instincts ‒ imposed a moderate, but at the same time very important restriction, deeming it inappropriate to employ in an opera precisely the highest skills of which his art was capable. If ever there was a human existence ...
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... have over it? Not the slightest control. And so I come back (ceterum censeo) and say: let us do Haydn and nothing else. If the whole is in fact superfluous, it can only have meaning if we seek out the whole of art in one such piece. Forget everyone and ...
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... äußeres Leben erträglicher zu machen. Mußt du schon die Unterrichtstätigkeit fortsetzen, da die solistische Bahn materiell nicht lohnend genug wäre, so sind Erfolge so ungewöhnlicher Art als Honorar-Coëffiziente sehr willkommen. Einen Erfolg bezahlt man ...
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... until 1925. And this fool, this thief, fancies himself as a pillar of art and progress, as defender of the Jews, as a democrat, a pacifist, a cosmopolitan, etc. Thanks very much indeed! But now: please be kind enough to send further evidence, if you can ...
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... income in sight, all around us no feeling for “blood” for “art” – I cannot conceive of thinking about politics, since this disgrace physically crushes me; I am verily laden with cares and pains in all my extremities, after such an immortal, unique ...
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... divided. They all end with a more-or-less clear avowal of the "foundations of the new nation," of which they first assert that it has nothing in common with art. I hope, however, that you are feeling well and that your work affords you abundant ...
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... image. Then may the uplifting comfort also encourage it, precisely through the abstracted, purely self-sufficient art of music, to understand God's creation as an image of God: God as image of Himself!") Endlich lege ich noch die Rechnung der „U.E.“ bei ...
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... last to see music analyzed in such a way as not everybody can understand. If only people would finally realize that music is the one art of which understanding can be granted to only a few.” I recalled your words: “Give Der Tonwille to X, X”; he should ...
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... Duisburg as being incapable of understanding the refinements of art, he alludes to the process whereby the city's chief industrial product, steel, is refined to become Edelstahl ("stainless steel"). Das Musikleben ein Koloss auf tönernen Füssen. Ich ...
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... . und schriftlicher Erläuterung als eine Art Maasstab für den derzeitigen Stand meines eigenen Lesens. Ich glaube, eine ganze Menge inzwischen dazugelernt zu haben. Also fasse ich die Bach-Tafel als Stichprobe auf mich selbst auf.This paragraph refers to ...