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... sooner reckon with the justified wishes of the author?—Yes, this too: the fonts of Universal Edition are very undesirable to me and almost a reason to deter. Hopefully, it will not insist on them.—If only Furtwängler would once perform something of mine ...
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... , and besides that only Bach, Haydn, and Mozart can be heard at our home. It is impossible to play Schumann or Brahms on the Stein piano. These circumstances would impose limitations on teaching, in regard to the works to be performed; I don't know if ...
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... really intend in the examples. Or have I got this wrong? A short while ago I was able to add Vrieslander’s biography of C. P. E. Bach and his cantatas and songs to my library. I am going to perform the cantata Phyllis and Thirsis at our winter school ...
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... subscribers for the new publication, but alas, in vain. In our villages people feel very little necessity to grapple with musical problems; they think they will lose their precious “immediacy” if they know why Beethoven was a master. Now I am hoping to perform ...
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... , who told me of a visit with you. Unfortunately he is so beleaguered here (and also very busy), so that it has not yet been possible to arrange a meeting; but very probably next week. I would like to ask him to recommend me to the soloists performing ...
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... longer essay "The Place of the Jews within German Musical Evolution," which I was asked to contribute to a larger study. Although I was to work only on composers – theorists and performers had been treated by somebody else – I could not resist some ...
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... far murkier one. Before the performance, and in the subsequent intermissions ‒ it was not Wagner that was the object of conversation, but . . . . . (like the devil, not to be put on paper!) And the threads that spin from "Wahnfried" to this madness. An ...
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... ."). Komme soeben von Wiener.Karpath was involved in plans to establish a Professorship in Music Theory for Schenker at the Vienna Conservatory (later the Academy for Music and Performing Art). Karl von Wiener was the official at the Ministry of Education ...
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... ." This was a ruse to force the hand of the Academy for Music and Performing Art: the diary entry dated the beginning of June 1911 (OJ 1/10, pp. 131[r], 131[a], and 132) explains how this announcement, which the Neue freie Presse published in its morning ...
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... impossibility has brought about chaos in the music of the present day. The author, who has come to prominence eloquently on several occasions, among others through a translation of Mozart's Don Giovanni performed at different court theaters, has reached the ...