... for further compositions and start work on a new adagio? I await your decisions, your advice, but over the summer I have forgotten how to hurry and make haste and it won't bother me if all I can achieve is to effect the above well, rather than ...

... Verehrter Meister!Receipt of this letter is not recorded in Schenker's diary. Nun Sie sich mit meinen KleinigkeitenEvidently Weisse had sent (or perhaps handed over at his previous lesson, January 10) to Schenker some recent compositions ...

... without the latter one can hardly blame anybody for considering the Urlinie to be more or less an arbitrary invention of your individual interpretation, rather than an objective compositional maxim! – And how is dear Lie Lie? I hope she is now quite ...

... veröffentlicht wurde.Mozart's purported letter to Baron Gottfried van Swieten about compositional process, which is mentioned in many letters from 1931. Ich habe Ihre Karte,The calling card with an excerpt from the (forged) Mozart letter that Schenker had had ...

... lunch, to Weisse (letter): I enclose Schwarz's photograph; concerning his unhappy experiences with his homeland; I repeat my reminder that he secure well-to-do friends; I recount the story of Free Composition, the damage caused by the elusiveness of 10 ...

... study theory as a subsidiary subject in the same way and from the same point of view as I do. I myself have two different classes with six pupils in each, a composition class with three pupils, and a further five or six private lessons pupils for two ...

... entered the last musical example, and thereby Free Composition is completed. Final review and preparation for printing will still give my wife and me plenty to do! It pleases me greatly that Hoboken has finally come round; it is a good sign, to be valued ...

... has demanded too much for the advertisement; he would have preferred that the publisher pay him. The former Kunstwart (Deutsche Zeitschrift, Munich) is publishing in the August issue an essay by me, extracted from Free Composition, which was already ...

... Universal Edition), indeed even in cantatas by J. S. Bach that I have arranged and performed, I have seen in the original not only what is obvious but also the deepest secrets, and all that is sufficient for a proper understanding of the composition. Even in ...

... or attention, so also in the realm of the intellect they wish to splash about, without prior education. (But a musical composition is something very different from the sex act: in the former, the matter is indeed more difficult.) Specifically, music ...