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... time. Mainly Chopin. This pleased me greatly. To be honest, I have never heard any piano playing quite like this, except from you and from him. Of course, I found a marked difference between the two of you – he plays very freely, though one senses that ...
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... thereby delayed. Anyway, I hope to be ready on the 10th and to come to you on the afternoon of Tuesday the 13th at 2:30. Then, to be sure, I will still have no piano. Kohn could not hold out hope for a Steinway, and thus I have decided to take one with me ...
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... other work with me, and the piano here is abominable. Mornings we bathe, swim, row, and dry ourselves in the sun. Then evenings we go to bed early. The place and the island are enchanting, and their world renown is well deserved. There are plenty of spa ...
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... on "Mendelssohn" ‒ with singing and piano. Now you have an approximate picture of me. It would interest me greatly to know how you have passed the miserable days in Vienna. Whether you have suffered in any way, beyond the general horror ...
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... example, the four-volume collected edition of the Beethoven piano sonatas ‒ overall I should like to express my thanks to you not just figuratively but tangibly on behalf of the whole of musical humanity. You have with your initial deed earned undying ...
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... hours, more than once; now I am also teaching his son the third year of Theory and Piano (without pay, it goes without saying) – if I could again reclaim my the money that I left in his care! With great difficulty, I managed to get him to repay me half ...
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... reached me here (printed form) with the request to supplement the existing entry from the Riemann Lexicon. I read the entry for the first time and found it curious: it lacks Counterpoint II/2, the "collected edition" of the piano sonatas of Beethoven, even ...
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... ‒ and I must confess that I am not even in a state to sit down these days at a piano, which I have wholly neglected to do for an entire month ‒ I should like to ask you to give me a lesson every two weeks. But since now in recent months ‒ I hope with all ...
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... learn the theory of the harmonic degree in connection with the Urlinie, and also counterpoint, etc. Among my piano pupils, two are already receiving instruction in the Urlinie (the others are not suited to this), of whom one (female) is already quite ...
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... Mrs. Colbert, Michelsohn (from New York) and others { who sought me as a theory teacher likewise recognized that it was the highest honor to have enjoyed my tuition in the treatment of the piano: in both cases the theory was new, my pupils had the ...