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Diary entry for 1929-12-15
... Skizze der Entgegnung. The Deutsche Tonkünstler-Zeitung of November 5, 1929 contains an article by Waldemar Schmid in which Schenker's name is mentioned, as well as Schoenberg's article On the Question of Modern Composition Teaching, to which Schenker ...
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Diary entry for 1931-03-01
... obendrein, ist furchtbar! Diesem Arzt also verdanke ich meine Genesung! March 1 1931, Sunday; rain, snow, +5°. After a bad night, very tired. Work on "Substitution" and "Exchange [of Voices]" in Free Composition. 5:15 to 8:15, Rothberger and his wife; Lie ...
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Diary entry for 1931-09-04
... vehicles follow. Shortly before Salzburg, the setting sun parts the clouds, and we enter Salzburg as if in the gleam of a giant searchlight: all’s well that ends well! Supper in our room. The end of our travels; above all we want to have Free Composition ...
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Diary entry for 1931-12-02
... this year, and the friendly communications. Perhaps the hour of fulfillment is now not far away. I refer to my letter to Staeps. Free Composition is likely to be printed in a year’s time; then it will not be long before the work is available. Hoboken ...
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Diary entry for 1932-09-26
... , er bestellt uns für Donnerstag um ½7h. An Steiner (Br.): Dank. 26, a good night. Lie-Liechen is finished with the first section of Free Composition. I am determined to see to it that in any event everything in the relevant folder that is ready for ...
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Diary entry for 1926-10-03
... wrested from him: whether it might not be possible to teach counterpoint already in the Ursatz, in order to bypass the laborious and extensive aspects of counterpoint and bring the pupil closer to the actual problems of free composition. I have warned him ...
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Diary entry for 1908-11-15
... evenings during the winter months [he acts as a] judge over composition, performance and instrumentation ‒ he deems it perfectly appropriate for him to find fault with this or that work that a composer or orchestra has delivered because he labors under the ...
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Diary entry for 1914-09-14
... erwarte ich noch von anderen Schülern, doch immer sich die Zukunft eben erst walten lassen. Marpurg-Studien, besonders 1. Teil. Schenker owned four works by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Handbuch bey dem Generalbasse und der Composition, 3 vols (Berlin 1757 ...
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Diary entry for 1915-12-04
... : Mendelssohn's overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage; Strauss's Alpine Symphony, and Mozart's Symphony in E flat major. Weingartner's art of reproduction is perhaps a more calamitous fact than Strauss's composition; for Weingartner willfully destroys a life ...
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Diary entry for 1916-12-06
... , one places oneself immediately before the compositions themselves. On the other hand, a great deal of gibberish about "progress"! As small tables are shifted in spiritualist, everyone is playing with the table-shifting of progress – Brahms alone never ...