... exactly those pages, which, under the stress of the many publications, I had totally forgotten . . . And now the coincidence: after finishing up the background and middleground, I have arrived in Free Composition at the foreground, and indeed, precisely at ...

... progression to its content, proceeding from the simplest thing in the background to the most colorful thing in the foreground, a progression that can and must, however, also be read in reverse as a regression from the most colorful in the foreground to the ...

... Fulfillment. Only too real, too actual as seen from the background, the old religious phrase: "so that the Word be fulfilled," ‒ the Word is true. (Incidentally: think of the Oedipus-legend, of my "Ursatz" etc.) As a youth you hoped to excel in composition ...

... ) from the printers on February 6, so Hertzka is presumably thinking of evolution of the Tabelle in future editions of what Hertzka sees as a high-volume educational seller. Hertzka is writing against the background of his embarrassment over additional ...

... financial difficulties and had to scrape by with cheap lessons. Could you please just tell me one thing: how much time do I require (assuming a certain background of knowledge and working very diligently) to be completely competent in the totality of music ...

... "background lot" which touches the genius, God, and transcendental things. The experience with Hoboken has probably taught you enough. Now you'll have plenty to learn from the reception of your book! Fundamentally our project is one of present-day Jewry as ...

... progressions" (even if they are unable to follow the "Urlinie" as primeval mother at the very deepest background level), as the bearers of a coherence of the sort that is granted to speech by means of sentence construction, etc. That only now, after music has ...

... Wagner, for example, is worse than the great masters is something they will ask already in the second minute of the discussion, hardly having heard the first thing about a background layer, the Urlinie, or a linear progression. None of all this is of any ...

... your informative letter, from which I have gained a lively picture of your intellectual background and development. That Heinrich Schenker’s work stands at the center of your entire life and work touches me in a most deeply sympathetic way. I am ...

... that I find some silly things in Brahms if I give in to my natural disinclination toward him. I would rather not do that publicly if it is not absolutely necessary ‒ and it isn't because I do see his life's work in the background. If Berlioz is clumsy ...