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Diary entry for 1907-12-27
... , understand Brahms's rebuke, and pontificates ‒ composition theory! What a sorry fate is that of a Brahms, in the midst of so few friends and artists who understood or reached out to him! All the better to treasure the lovely pull toward Brahms and to marvel ...
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Diary entry for 1919-08-29
... living together freely with his second; . I then break in to outline a broad plan of study suitable to occupy him for over a year. I remarked that although he has to enjoy species counterpoint without setting his sights on free composition, since ...
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Diary entry for 1925-07-01
... of other real artists of composition do, e.g., Keller, and fails to describe them sufficiently enough that they are suitable both as unique individuals and as types. It is a contradiction when he so ironically lets loose on the poetaster Spinell ...
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Diary entry for 1910-11-27
... differently, but with Ibsen the chronology in the dramatic technique would have been different; it would ultimately recognize the state of affairs and would ‒ with the purifying of the King ‒ strive to return to the beginning. . . Hamlet takes on a role not of ...
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Diary entry for 1907-09-29
... Ages, but less one of belief than of ‒ commercialism! The work of art ‒ a network of ideas and intentions. In modern compositions, so-called moods from time to time collect ‒ just as water does in various places on the earth's surface. Even where wealth ...
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Diary entry for 1912-10-25
... important positions for individual music societies such as the Concert Society, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Philharmonic Choir, etc. Considering that the Ministry still offers much too little for the principal matter of music, namely composition, it is ...
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Diary entry for 1912-11-07
... from view. The picture, moreover, applies also to modern compositions; and in the same way that the constant digressions in the conversation betray a lack of respect for the matters under discussion, so the constant changes of harmony in music ...
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Diary entry for 1913-05-23
... . nicht in die Reihe Beethovens gehören: possibly "not to be of Beethoven's rank"; but also suggesting that Wagner was not part of the Beethoven tradition. In his long essay Über den Niedergang der Kompositionskunst ("The Decline of the Art of Composition ...
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Diary entry for 1913-07-20
... to things that evidently define the good qualities of the former. – If only things were so easy in art, so that from bad compositions one could understand by oneself the good qualities on which the masterworks are based. A marvelous sunset: evening ...
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Diary entry for 1914-09-08
... des Herrn v. Stein Presumably the general quartermaster Hermann von Stein (1854–1927), who was responsible for the composition of reports from the German military. über die Pflicht, solid, kurz u. konzentriert die Ereignisse zu beschreiben. in HS ...