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Diary entry for 1923-12-20
... aufgeben wolle. Ich glaube es nicht, u. als er meine unbedingte Art zu leben pries, erwiderte ich recht beziehungsvoll – u. schon stieg ich in den Straßenbahnwagen – : das kommt davon, weil ich keine Geldneugier habe! 20 0° – Nice. From Dr. Lamberg (letter ...
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Diary entry for 1923-12-26
... execution looks quite humorous and it is therefore a matter of course that the tone of the playwright and the actors must fail when the higher sphere of this question is contemplated. Still, Pallenberg's art rose to the level of a nature, the highest praise ...
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Diary entry for 1924-08-17
... foundation to the Ministry of Art and Education. Vrieslander: Der Tonwille has a great future! To Wilhelmlmann (postcard): Marie discharged, what quota for September? Lie-Liechen gives Franz and Adolf Türtscher six fine candies each. Mr. Kurz, is drunk, tells ...
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Diary entry for 1924-10-26
... edition. To Hoboken (letter): thanks for the pictures, although I have never been a friend of the French and am not one now either, I would be the first to welcome a French musical genius. Of course there is currently nothing visible, the art of music is ...
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Diary entry for 1925-09-30
... is happening to Germanness in the world and is also necessitated by his vocation to be cosmopolitan, and so he finds it difficult to muster compassion for the pain I feel regarding the loss of art brought on by the disgraceful behavior of the West. We ...
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Diary entry for 1925-10-30
... father: “You show your skill in art by obtaining some building contracts! Then the greater credit-worthiness of the father would be revealed… . The youth intends to make an appeal to several relatives who are very well off. I fear that the youth will ...
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Diary entry for 1927-09-04
... , als nur nach Art kleiner Kinder den Wunsch geäußert, mit dem Bruder noch ein paar heitere Jahre zu erleben, des Bruders Möglichkeiten aber erwog er nicht, weil er sie zu erwägen gar nicht fähig wäre. Und so bereitete er mir den Schmerz, ihm diese Bitte ...
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Diary entry for 1928-02-09
... . That Brahms's Variations on a Hungarian Theme (Op. 21) represents a higher level of art-music, is something that need not be said. It is strange, however, that it towers over even the work of the Hungarian composer in national coloring (to say nothing ...
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Diary entry for 1929-10-28
... diese Trähnen der Letzten der Letzten weit stinkender als ihr Harn? Billig wie diese Trähnen ist auch das Dabeisein u. an der billigen Art dabei zu sein erkennt man dieses Menschengeschmeiß. Wäre es nicht Mode geworden, das selbe Geschmeiß hätte sich ...
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Diary entry for 1930-09-06
... pyramids of the Egyptian kings as a travel destination!) How this enabled the brilliance of a genius like Mozart to have an economic impact! (Poor Mozart, too, underwent a crucifixion (??); he sacrificed his life for art, so that others could make money ...