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Searched for virtuoso in Diaries (6 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1913-10-11

    ... . meine Antwort. 11. No reply from Mrs. Pairamall. For the Little Library, Brahms's Piano Quartet in C minor. In the movie theater, The Last Days of Pompeii and a talking film seen and heard for the first time: a dancer and a virtuoso ocarina player. As ...

  • Diary entry for 1931-10-21

    ... hairbrush for the first time in a quarter of a century, we ride home. Radio, 7 o’clock: a famous guitar virtuoso, Liobet – a Spaniard? Games of solitaire. ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-07-08

    ... actually the injured vanity of a virtuoso? …. Later on we made an effort to receive the singer's favor by better behavior; but he remained – who knows whether it was really out of shyness or from exaggerated vanity? – implacable. However we want to look for ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-12-24

    ... hermeneutics but not a proliferation of art, if in every small town, in an age in which virtuosos press themselves upon concert agents, journalists today require templates with which to make their submission, and for these purposes make use of Riemann’s lexicon ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-09-17

    ... honor; whereas that which changes is promoted to the advantage of vanity, which stamps its seal on all of this. + Virtuoso performers, too, arise from – inability! + Among animals there is only might, no cunning; among people, cunning and deceit are the ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-12-22

    ... shorter a thorough study lasts than one that proceeds in error. I calculate: the foundations of the Sonata in A flat major require 3½ months, that is, approximately 15 lessons on my part; whereas a virtuoso, even one of the highest rank, must study the ...

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