... piano playing only up to a degree that can be reached quickly, possibly with Breithaupt’s help (if he does not find, alongside Breitkopf in music, also a Breitbart as Dr. Eisenbart). His letter seems to me quite submissive; but his even longer stay in ...

... music and other things, and had left it in my car while I attended a concert. During that time the portfolio was stolen from the car. Probably the thief assumed that it contained securities; but it held only piano etudes. Now finger-dexterity is supposed ...

... , lag mir immer sehr wenig. Dachten Sie wirklich an „Bach für Reger“?Modern composers, Schenker maintains, exhibit a lack of scale-step progression, for which the opening of Reger's Piano Quintet, Op. 64, is cited as a "deterrent example" (Harmonielehre ...

... Ravel Piano Concerto, incidentally, Strauss's Don Juan was an absolute relief! I have given three lectures at the Conservatory (Mr. van Hoboken was also present at the first two), poorly attended, but I no longer get upset about that. In the first I ...

... illusions – people in their artistic viewpoints are mostly at the level of childish dilettants. The evening ended on a very cheerful note with punch, phonograph records, and (really very accomplished) dance improvisations with two pianos. The day before ...

... matter I am sending you a chaconne for piano that I composed after my return from the field. Under present uncertain circumstances I do not dare to send manuscripts. And the publishers take nothing. I have many things in storage but I hardly consider ...

... nach und nach abhaspeln muß. Mit Musik haben sie in der Hauptsache garnichts zu thun. — Für heute nur noch Antwort auf Ihre Frage wegen der Beethoven’schen Sonaten.Schenker was at this time searching for the autograph sources of the late Beethoven piano ...

... , Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute v (1981), 23–43. The document from which this edition was made is a photocopy; the whereabouts of the original is not known. ich habe doch jetzt schon angefangen, Ihre „Syrier“Schenker’s Syrische Tänze, for piano ...

... have been for a year speaking with him in his lessons only about art and less about his not exactly promising piano playing. He is the leader of a worker's community of the local society of composers. Within this community, he babbled his wisdom about ...

... of your Musical Theories and Fantasies and am at work on it zealously. To start with, this is still presenting me with considerable difficulties, but I hope to be able to overcome these. On the piano playing front, I have, according to my teacher ...