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Searched for "compositional" technique in Diaries (721 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1924-03-22

    ... and thankfully. The pieces have Brahms's good technique in mind, for it was he who first invented them. The first three poems (Goethe) are too demure, too didactic, a lyrical punch line comes to the fore only in the last poem, which is also musically ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-01-19

    ... his performance; – an English woman plays the piano in the Brahms quintet: very unmusical and lacking any technique; but she gets what she deserves. The piano was totally in the background, which was completely wrong from a musical standpoint and which ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-05-28

    ... excellent. At 9:30 radio broadcast from Prague: a feeble piece by Dvořák, the Symphony in G major, made listening difficult. The technique in this piece has nothing to do with the symphonic, everything gravitates towards lyrical passages and moments that are ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-10-29

    ... ; van den Berg plays Mozart's Concerto in G major, K. 216, in his incomparable way, I would dearly like to know who wrote the attractive cadenza to the first movement; a closing chorus of Die Weltfeier by Weigl exhibited the usual technique of climaxing ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-03-25

    ... conquered with effort over a period of millennia. The people lack the dimension of depth; only the little, superficial points of destinies are shown; in addition, the technique of cinematic compression is pushed so far that one learns nothing of the ...

  • Diary entry for 1911-05-10

    ... open question. At any rate, in the Oedipus myth, whatever else may also underlie it, incest has found its most hideous embodiment, amply sufficient to provide any deterrent. The dramatic technique (rather as is the case with Ibsen) is introduced here at ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-11-28

    ... and Schumann were surely right when they damned these quadrilles, waltzes and marches, the brash instrumentation, and sensationalism; yet one should not deny Meyerbeer "good ideas," understood in terms of a poor technique of invention. He surely ...

  • 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 ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-05-30

    ... alles vergessen haben! Weisse interpellirt noch einmal wegen der Klavierstunden. Around this time Hans Weisse, who had been studying composition with Schenker and piano with Moriz Violin, wanted to study both with Schenker. Endlich Zahlungsauftrag ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-12-28

    ... stipends "for impecunious skilled composers and composition pupils" left in her will by Sofie Deutsch, to be disbursed at Schenker's sole discretion, Vrieslander being one of the first recipients. Von Frau Wally Beileid u. Einladung. 28 -5°; in the streets ...

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