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Searched for synthesis in Diaries (19 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1927-02-21

    ... Beethoven's corrections; mainly contractions, not so much from the standpoint of the drama but from that of the musical synthesis. Differences in slurring and dynamics also surface here and there. After teatime, a walk and shopping. ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-10-25

    ... , diary dictation. After the lesson, shopping. To Vrieslander (letter): I recommend postponing the break with Hoboken and, even more, to bear up, for the sake of the goal; in the end, musical synthesis is our cause, not that of others. Radio: transmission ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-03-22

    ... audience, despite an apparently distancing deportment. Casals then played Bach's C-minor Solo Suite as outstandingly as ever – if he failed in the Beethoven, that merely shows that he is not intellectually ready for the synthesis of a sonata movement to be ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-03-12

    ... uncommonly strong instinct for synthesis, perhaps born from his incomparable understanding of the instrument! I understand it as follows: Casals senses a beauty in the construction of a greater unity; since at the same time he senses the technical means to ...

  • Diary entry for 1906-12-16

    ... " Overture, Mozart’s G minor Symphony, and the "Eroica." With the most naked exposure of his weaknesses, his inability to achieve synthesis, and his lack of any really deep empathy ‒ and interpretive organization! Offenses of all sorts against the best of the ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-10-09

    ... musical points of tension, i.e. successful synthesis; and this makes for a sweeping effect, however simple, even too simple, the notated surface may seem. The musician will have to come to these songs; they will certainly seek him out. At one point I let ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-11-12

    ... not become anything other than what he was, he was indeed always more than a composer of waltzes and operettas; he was an inventor and synthesist of genius, even if he practised this synthesis in the narrowest range. In the past, the Philharmonic ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-05-19

    ... musical instinct for synthesis is sufficient for that task. Regarding everything else – historical, stylistic, etc. – in the lessonbook, as I have spoken with all my pupils about it. ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-03-12

    ... , when confronted by "causality" and "synthesis," i.e. those terms that I myself use with my pupils and in my writings, wanted in all cases to replace them with the concept of "style," which he propagated in his own writings. Adler's obsession is all the ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-05-21

    ... individual component of the motive separately, so that he could maintain a certain progression even in the joining of the individual parts. And each time he created, after the most careful analysis, a powerful synthesis of the entire birdcall. Postcard from ...

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