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Diary entry for 1911-07-01
... location. Food acceptable. Answer from Director Hertzka: I hope that we can still come to an agreement over Beethoven and Bach." A start made on the work The Art of Performance. ...
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Diary entry for 1912-02-04
... 4. II. Abend: Fitelberg – Godowsky. According to the theater and art news in the Neue freie Presse (p. 17), this "symphony concert" took place in the Great Hall of the Musikverein. Grzegorz Fitelberg conducted the orchestra of the Vienna Concert ...
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Diary entry for 1913-01-23
... -consequent construction, the difficulty of juxtaposition: the former = repetition, hence art, the latter = chaos, nature? Mixture of the two. ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-08
... Identität der Dioptrin-Nummer, der Art des Schliffes zufolge , gleichwohl verschiedenartige Brechungen u. damit auch verschieden starke Grade des Sehens gegeben sind. So vermittelt Bergkristall schärfere Eindrücke als Zeissgläser, u. s. f. PaketOC 52/133 von ...
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Diary entry for 1914-08-13
... return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." Gegen Abend finden wir zuhause einen abrupt mit Blei geschriebenen Zettel von Fr. Deutsch, mit Einladung zu gemeinsamem Abendessen bei Weingartel ...
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Diary entry for 1914-10-14
... 14. X. 14 Fl. zu Tisch, ein Exemplar der Generalbaßlehre von Em. Bach erbittend; Schenker owned two editions of Bach's Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments: the fifth imprint of the original edition (Berlin: Stage, 1856) and the new ...
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Diary entry for 1915-08-18
... Betragen habe sie verletzt, da er auf ihre Kosten Witze gerissen. Nun denn, die Art einander mit Schmeicheleien zu begegnen ist eben unter den Menschen verbreiteter als die andere Art, durch Witz das gesellschaftliche Leben wach zu erhalten. Im Grunde sind ...
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Diary entry for 1915-09-24
... Kautzen. Die Musik is halting production for the time being – I would only wish that, similarly, all other writers might halt their musical publications, too; perhaps a long pause in the fabrication of mistakes and nonsense about art would finally come ...
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Diary entry for 1915-10-08
... . Wienerisches: Die Wäsche wird um ¼9h abends gebracht. 8. Letter to Baroness Bach, in which I say that I cannot take responsibility for other teachers. This includes the line: "Theory and art are, unfortunately, regarded as two rooms with separate entrances ...
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Diary entry for 1915-10-16
... could surely have not turned out worse for culture had the art of book printing begun not with the Holy Bible but with some cheap novel! The little head of a child is cleared of lice very quickly. Hygienic parents are, of course, soon finished with this ...