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... Reiches ist ihm gewissermaßen schon gegeben." ("From Halm (letter): has sent a string quartet through a teacher leaving Wickersdorf. Status of his compositions and his relationships to publishers. Guesses that his compositions will not appeal to me; wants ...
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... thankful for is Bruckner's genuine, typical good composition, in which he stands sky high above all, all of today! Compared with him, the real tone craftsmen, the composers of today ‒ not a single one excepted! ‒ simply no longer appear as musicians. He ...
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... Schenker criticizes those who regard the Classical masters as "reflective," rather than spontaneously creative. See Heinrich Schenker, The Decline of the Art of Composition, ed. and trans. William Drabkin, Music Analysis 24 (2005), especially pp. 39–40 (in ...
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... proceeds always in tandem with the foreground, the background is present within the foreground. In so doing, I have still not, however, expressed myself as to how a composition actually comes into being. The "chronological dimension" of actual creation does ...
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... by me in the Foreword to vol. I and vol. II/1: the Decline of the Art of Composition. Logically expanded, this latter would certainly have to include in the course of its theoretical discussions the most important examples from the repertory. Since ...
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... of criticism for art works that is based on compositional factors. ‒ What one usually reads and hears is a journalism ignorant of artistic matters; or ‒ as in the case of artists and theorists ‒ a way of thinking that is theoretically pretentiousness ...
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... S. F. 29 März 1941. Lieber u. verehrter Freund! Haben Sie wieder innigsten Dank für die lebenserfrischenden Los Angeleser Tage! Ich bekam durch Ihren VortragViolin had attended Schoenberg's lecture Composition with Twelve Tones, given at the ...
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... , as you are yourself a composer, I would prefer, for the first time, to present a work by you. It is too late for the coming season, but as you live in San Francisco, we can meet some time and you can show me some of your compositions – Very sincerely ...
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... beginning of August. Unfortunately, I can do almost no work when I am traveling. Most cordial greetings to you en quadrille. Your wholly devoted O. E. Deutsch 1 enclosure Keeping Breitkopf warm for Free Composition is important. ...
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... edition of the Haydn canons there. My article on them will again appear in the Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft. The Grand Masonic Lodge, Vienna, has accepted my Mozart booklet (On Mozart’s Masonic Compositions) for publication, although I am not a ...