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Diary entry for 1918-02-06
... to be expected. Mrs. Pairamall shows me compositions by Schmidt, a village schoolmaster in Germany, who, she purports, is a great admirer of mine. Mrs. Pairamall has been approached by some middleman or other. Lisa Oesterreicher (Berliner Tageblatt ...
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Diary entry for 1921-01-05
... . (expr.): bei Hertzka gut abgelaufen, stehe Freitag oder Samstag im Cafehaus zur Verfügung. January 5, 1921 From Deetjen (letter from Barmen): about his changed circumstances. Geier appears at 9:30: his compositions are monotonous, primitive. At 4:00 run ...
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Diary entry for 1923-09-10
... :00; borrow the original edition of Op. 90, score of the Fifth Symphony and an incorrectly labeled copy of the symphony: "First fair copy of the author's composition from which he turned over the work for engraving and for the first print – acquired from the ...
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Diary entry for 1924-11-29
... , Bruckner's D-minor Mass: unbearable because of the dense composition. ...
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Diary entry for 1925-04-24
... ; prepare Scherzo and Adagio of the B-minor Sonata. Weisse at 12:00; he brings Simrock's rejection, impudently justified in that the composition did not bring anything "new!" I ask Weisse for the Reger-Telemann variations. Lie-Liechen plays Chopin etudes on ...
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Diary entry for 1926-06-11
... my compositions and matters relating to publishing houses. To Saphier (express letter): I thank him for his great kindness and send him at the same time 25 shillings. To Weisse (express postcard): the Yearbook has been published. To Dahms (letter): I ...
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Diary entry for 1927-01-11
... perhaps relates to the bequest from Sofie Deutsch of stipends for "impecunious skilled composers and similarly qualified composition pupils," dating from 1917 and in Schenker's gift, but which Schenker had been contesting with the Akademie since 1924. The ...
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Diary entry for 1927-02-07
... 7. +2°, schön. Von der Akademie (Br.): wie ich nach meinem Ableben über das Stipendium i.e. the stipends for "impecunious skilled composers and similarly qualified composition pupils,” deriving from a bequest by Sofie Deutsch of 1917 and in Schenker ...
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Diary entry for 1927-10-09
... his compositional talent at a high level, although he is quite conscious that it is restricted to the art of song. Close attention to the way in which the poem is set out; the power to understand its essential meaning, which translates very well into ...
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Diary entry for 1927-12-11
... – to avoid catastrophes – developed the concept for him in a form that he will surely find new: in particular, not to continue counting from the viewpoint of normal periodization, but rather from the viewpoint of the compositional process. The ...