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Diary entry for 1931-12-20
... tablet (taken at 12:30), I fell asleep around 2:30; a good night’s sleep. Work on Free Composition: "Obligatory Register" and "Meter" laid out. After teatime, I confess to my dear Lie-Liechen the reason for my constant mental agitation, from which I ...
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Diary entry for 1916-04-28
... explains why they covered up their own, greater criminality as legal order but declared the lower forms of criminality, committed by the others, as legal disorder. This technique of legislation indeed brings to mind marriage law, in which men could ...
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Diary entry for 1916-07-12
... so he did not refrain from saying "my dear lady" and using similarly syrupy expressions, which have their desired effect in the majority of cases. In the two bread commissions, a different technique was observed; one took the bread-card away from Lie ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-08
... , for example, conceive an idealized waltz by Chopin mixed with the technique of Strauss's dance waltzes? Do not the latter's potpourri qualities contradict the former's artistry? And could the mixture lead to a satisfactory synthesis? Surely not! Just ...
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Diary entry for 1912-09-03
... have succeeded only in taking a boat trip and a few promenades; but what we have looked forward to has been pushed into the future. In the meantime, I have looked through my work on free composition, and ordered it more concisely. We have also been able ...
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Diary entry for 1913-02-22
... care at all about the production – but in so doing he thereby forfeits the ability to be able to follow the composition. What he takes from it is that enjoyment that the taker strives after when he does not infiltrate the sphere of the giver. The object ...
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Diary entry for 1914-10-10
... my place. Only a vain singer can succeed in demanding a service from person who is completely unknown to him, and all the more so without pay. Perhaps he is thinking of compensating by performing Weisse's compositions. But even this reward should be ...
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Diary entry for 1914-11-24
... , which, as he says, caused him deep pains, nearly more than the desolation caused by the war. The boy is thus beginning to sense within his own body that which some time ago called me away from compositional activities and placed me in the service of my ...
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Diary entry for 1915-03-24
... other musicians and others, he had the leisure and the will to take me under his wing when I entered the Conservatory on an imperial scholarship. It was he who paid attention to my compositions, introduced me to Epstein (who from time to time provided me ...
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Diary entry for 1915-06-29
... . Notification of the new address given to the post office and newspaper distributor. Message to Breisach. Mrs. Pairamall sends some "song compositions" by her daughter. ...