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• Diary entry for 1928-01-29

  ... art; the symphony made a ludicrous impression, not only because of its all too bland music but also because of its poor compositional construction. Lie-Liechen takes two hours to prepare the afternoon snack. At 4:30, Weisse with his wife; then Hammer ...

• Diary entry for 1928-07-21

  ... is restricted only to the improvised fantasy. Even a sonata movement, as indeed all composition, is based on true improvisation. Back, then, to diminution as the best means of improvisation. I remind him of J. S. Bach's improvisations, published in ...

• Diary entry for 1930-02-21

  ... justification in my usual way. I am loath to speak about compositional mistakes on Beethoven's part without giving reasons. What I found oppressive during this presentation was the awareness that Hoboken is using (or, better, misusing) his tuition merely for the ...

• Diary entry for 1930-03-15

  ... up with the composition. Richard Strauss's Don Juan – that, of course, is something more suited to Furtwängler: the restless hither and thither, the banal melodic construction, the long slurs, the kitsch (to use a popular word of today), the potpourri ...

• Diary entry for 1930-04-03

  ... unable to read the manuscripts on the basis of a deep knowledge of the composition. After the lesson, a walk from 6 to 7 o'clock. The Foreword to the "Eroica" corrected, and dictated for the second time. At Rothberger's, final fitting; invitation for ...

• Diary entry for 1931-02-21

  ... take that path. From Mrs. Dunn (letterOJ 10/12, [1]): her husband was knocked down by an automobile and is dead! Without doubt, I have lost a loyal comrade, whom I could still hope to count upon. The section on Reaching Over in Free Composition ...

• Diary entry for 1931-02-24

  ... Over in Free Composition; the section on Motion from an Inner Voice elaborated. At 4:45, Lie-Liechen turns on the radio equipment and we listen to a record of Chaliapin singing the "Calumny Aria" from The Barber of Seville – perhaps the most ...

• Diary entry for 1931-02-26

  ... suggest that he might sometime also make use of quotation marks to give Korngold a hook to the chin. After 11 o’clock, dictation for Reaching Over and Motion from an Inner Voice in Free Composition. The lesson had almost catastrophic consequences: a ...

• Diary entry for 1931-03-03

  ... of composition, a revised version of symphonies and other works, this stingy Dutchman wanted to buy for a bottle of wine! That Mozart did not see through this Dutchman is improbable; he coddled him as his best friend surely not out of ignorance, but ...

• Diary entry for 1931-03-16

  ... rationalization in the framework of the planned book. It is [another version of] "Felix’s Bottle," as I often used to say. The evening indescribably pleasant, the night refreshing. In bed, I behold Free Composition as a slender, bright work before my eyes. ...

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