... fifths, a quarter tone apart.) NB: if there were another possibility than the system we have, the geniuses would certainly have made use of it! From the chaotic superabundance of natural possibilities, it was, rather, preferable to take the "perceivable ...

... 2: Or: I shall go over the whole thing carefully once more. Now to other matters. The things that are happening in Germany are in essence what you have so often extolled. Do not let the revolutionary neighbour-noises deceive you of the genius ...

... to even the highest genius, but much more so because this working method constitutes a new "model" and thus has had no precedent of any kind. Only now does the new "model" begin! (That is why I persistently encourage and elevate you to the humanity ...

... , must be regarded as one of the greatest and most powerful defenders and exponents of German musical genius and musical spirit. I am just on the point of going on holiday; perhaps you will tell me, when you have a chance, how things develop further for ...

... . The Englishman is almost as bad as that: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony makes the piccolo into a symphonic instrument for the first time and by a stroke of genius that has nowhere been surpassed. 8) Were I to elaborate on the explanation of the valves and ...

... actually be a nice piece of work for someone of moderately good ability, though lying below the summit of genius; this is something I would not at all oppose, for how else can we describe bad music, such as we have today, or arrogance? – he wants to be ...

... who assembled the negro choruses that you played for us on your phonograph today has to be called a true music genius; it would be worth while to know who that is: he deserves a first place among musicians, certainly ahead of Strauss and Pfitzner. Many ...

... , there, "best known," "well known," and "most exceptionally well known" author. I happily dispense with such hackneyed epithets as "man of genius" accorded to all the artists of today ‒ you can really best see the way the wind is blowing from the ...

... "The Mission of German Genius," Der Tonwille Heft 1 (1921), 12 (Eng. trans., p. 12), the suffix "iade" generally implying a celebration or competition (e.g. "Olympiade"), but being freighted here with scorn in referring to Foch's part (and also Wilson ...

... word, in the service of our geniuses. Honored by the invitation, and overjoyed at the possibilities for new plans that it opened up, I then declared my readiness to devote my skills to the Imperial & Royal Society of the Friends of Music. And since in ...