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... report [footnote: "or, as Kraus would say: a counterpoint from a freckle"]. This I have been aware of since that time in the coffee-house when he stole my views on musical questions in order to claim them as his own in mutilated form in the newspaper ...
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... small items. If you can and want to tell me now which edition you consider the least bad (I do not even dare to hope for a good one), I would be very grateful to you. Is Cotta going to further issue your Counterpoint? Publishers just no longer cooperate ...
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... 's counterpoint in so many variations that a further exposition was unnecessary; secondly, had I made this fugue the object of a special study, for instance in comparison with a fugue by Bach, then I would have had to check every detail in it. Weisse could have ...
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... hours each : all in all about twenty-two pupils at present. Their faces all light up, even when I lay the foundation stones of the concepts "counterpoint" and "harmony"; and I am convinced that the news of the introduction of the new theory will spread ...
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... needed, for which, at that time, the resources certainly would be found. (He is considering also a testamentary safeguard.) Incidentally: he has completed a similar study for himself, and also for his students, on Counterpoint, obviously not unlike you ...
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... only two books: a harmony treatise and a counterpoint treatise; ostensibly books just like so many other books, and nevertheless I venture to say that you have bequeathed the world a finer gift with your support of these books than did a Carnegie with ...
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... the continuation of my Theories and Fantasies, etc., which was published by Cotta (anonymously) a year ago, namely in the volume on Counterpoint, I am planning to return to this point in further detail. With all due respects, unsigned ...
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... Neugeborenen wünschen wir dem Elternpaar viel Glück. 9.11.27 My dear Mr. von Cube, Your present brought us great – very great – joy; we offer you our most heartfelt thanks. Not only our strange two-voice counterpoint, but also the four-part harmony is of the ...
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... much is indeed clear to me, that I can pay down the debt right now ‒ I will not find a better occasion very soon, unless Counterpoint makes its mark. That's how I myself should like it to be, only you must give me time until I am back home. Then I will ...
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... . In particular, the attitude of my pupils has made a strong impression on me, and the isolation into which we have fallen and that has rendered us completely helpless, allied above all with the pressure to finish the second volume of Counterpoint so as ...