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Diary entry for 1913-01-09
... of harmony actually a theory of composition; one must almost have the rank of a composer in order to be able to decide about harmonic degrees. The fortuitous constructions within one harmonic degree in free composition. The key = a house! Modal ...
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Diary entry for 1931-12-07
... – um 4h zuhause. Patiençen. 7, fog, +5°. To Martin (registered letter): his Urlinie graph returned with corrections, I ask for a "vacation"! To Oppel (letter): I enquire about Goos; counterpoint, thoroughbass, free composition – that would be my order ...
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Diary entry for 1931-12-14
... : counterpoint, thoroughbass, free composition – not adaptable to schools filled with diploma candidates. From 11 to 11:45, out of doors. For "Articulation" in Free Composition, a new section which includes the results published in Yearbook I. To Klein (letter ...
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Diary entry for 1931-02-14
... . Weisse seems to have taken this advice to heart, though he did not give up the teaching of composition. A lecture given in Hamburg shortly before his departure for America in September 1931 was entitled "Schöpferisches Hören – Hörerisches Schöpfen ...
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Diary entry for 1912-08-24
... my nerves has been shaken off, and we can cheerfully enjoy the little that remains of the summer. Four-voice counterpoint likewise completed, and the ordering in the section on free composition can be inserted. ...
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Diary entry for 1913-01-30
... Niemand wird seinen 50. Todestag feiern. 30. Another result of wealth: the wealthy simply have more opportunity – to see nothing, to hear nothing! Floriz and his wife with us for lunch in the restaurant. Conversation about voice leading in free composition ...
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Diary entry for 1934-08-06
... Vrieslander (postcard): he will not buy Jonas’s book, having previously sent him his compositions. In the coffee garden until midday. To Fritz (postcard): order. After teatime, a walk; we then sit for a while by the fountain. From Hoboken (postcard): he is ...
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Diary entry for 1932-12-16
... organ part in Brahms’s arrangement of Saul. After teatime, out of doors, unfortunately very foggy. From Furtwängler (letterOC 18/37–38 and an article by Roth): he is thinking about a masterclass in composition at the Academy in Berlin; Gräner ...
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Diary entry for 1933-06-02
... a snapshot of the Kinsky concert. From Weisse (letterOJ 15/16, [92]): concerning the Brahms study, and Kalmus’s visit; gives me his summer address – has organized an evening of his own compositions. Hoboken takes his lesson, grins, but says nothing ...
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Diary entry for 1934-06-10
... " about me, to visit me in the summer and show me his compositions. Swelling completely subsided. ...