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Diary entry for 1926-03-23
... derived from the foxtrot, created in the United States in the late 1910s; in Germany the word seems to be used interchangeably with "foxtrot" when referring to a musical composition. Cube's letter seems to have touched a raw nerve in Schenker: in the ...
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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 1931-08-25
... Churwalden; des Mannes Schweigen erklärt sie mit der Absicht, meine Augen schonen zu wollen!! Diktat bis „Einschaltung“ in Der freie Satz. This term probably refers to Free Composition, §63, which bears the heading "Von weiteren Einschaltungen und ihrer ...
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Diary entry for 1931-12-26
... of Paul Schiff, a book – apparently by him. From 10:15 to 11:10, along the right and left sides of the Rennweg. Work on Free Composition. Deutsch and his wife from 5 to 9 o’clock! They have learned of the honor to be imminently conferred upon Hoboken ...
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Diary entry for 1932-02-19
... , Schenker notes the end of the second "round" of work on Free Composition; on February 8 he returns to the beginning of the work and starts revising the section on "Background" (Hintergrund). The "first dictation" refers to this new version of the text. An ...
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Diary entry for 1932-09-02
... Elias (picture postcard): we depart on the 10th. To Oppel (postcard): we depart on the 10th; Free Composition finished up to the final revision! – then "the work that can hear goes out to the world that is deaf." To Wilhelm (letter): various things about ...
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Diary entry for 1906-11-29
... played; the first and last movements, conversely, performed with only inadequate technical means, the fugue particularly muddied with pedal (although certainly not without a clear conception of the whole). His own compositions in Schumannesque style; each ...
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Diary entry for 1912-02-04
... content; the cadenzas of the lowest standard, the pasting together of which dispensed with all compositional imagination. ...
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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 ...