... speaking of his own circumstances, particularly the need to take on so many private piano students in order to sustain himself and his wife. He has been pleading for more than a decade for a government subsidy, so that he could reduce the number of students ...

... last aural witness – suffering due to my own uniqueness; there is no understanding for my words and piano playing. Perhaps it has to do with the difference between eye and ear, see issues 5 and 6 of Tonwille. I believe in the landscape of the soul, and ...

... your viewpoint in every detail. Vrieslander’s comparison of first editions with my pianos is incorrect, as the latter have a fixed price – and for other reasons. It was perhaps not, or at least not entirely, Vrieslander’s annuity – probably 500 marks ...

... himself played the arpeggios in the Fantasy in his own day, and even less how he would play them if today he were sitting at a modern piano with pedals. I believe I can also call upon the example of the cadenzas of Mozart and Beethoven concertos. Where a ...

... rehearsed my Variations and Fugue for two pianos. There followed my new lectures, and an efficient piece of work that I had to get through as a result. The last of the six lectures takes place next Monday; I shall speak about my Variations, in the ...

... Ninth, Fifth, of the "Leonore" and "Egmont" Overtures, and in so many other equally dramatic passages in the middle of the Third, the Fifth, of the last piano sonatas and string quartets, but we otherwise were to miss in him the other, unfathomable world ...

... -hand piano music but in fact to siphon off my milk through the latter's pipe. Now, I shall wait calmly until Nature gives her verdict: she will put measures in their proper place, and punish that which deserves punishment. Can I ever thank you for the faith ...

... . In Galtür I made the acquaintance – unintentionally – of Prof. Kestner of Hamburg, whose sixteen-year-old daughter is taking piano lessons with Müller-Hartmann. I gave him a copy of the prospectus for the Schenker Institute. To myself K. did an ...

... thanks for Schindler's first edition. Ah, I have many important things to say to you on that, but it can be done only at the piano. I wrote to Mr. Deutsch in Nuremberg, but who knows whether he is already there, or whether the card reached him. Well then ...

... Beethoven piano sonatas with that of the second volume of Bach's Well-tempered Clavier, hatched in October 1910 and aborted in the summer of 1911. scheint über dieser Sache zu walten. Und so meine ich denn endlich: schätzen Sie, was ich gebe u. opfere ...