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Diary entry for 1913-10-30
... sie niemals wieder hören wird u. daher auch niemals wird verstehen können! Die Tatsache, daß die Art meiner Darstellung den Zuhörer leider persönlich trifft, obwohl sie mir doch nur von wahrer Humanität, also von der Lust aufzuklären, gegen Unglück ...
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Diary entry for 1913-11-08
... , the likes of which cannot be found anywhere in today's true art. One sees and hears original, charming things, admittedly alongside the common and basest things aimed at the lowliest stratum of society. What is striking above all is the sheer quantity ...
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Diary entry for 1913-11-23
... the arts, etc.; and the same would also be recommended to the Austrian state, which should engage in spiritual expansion if it can no longer engage in political expansion. Financial improvement is something the Austrian state can hope for only if, in ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-14
... "varied reprises" to sonata form! In any event, the music itself is thoroughly instructive and full of genius; and the art of the variations that the master demonstrates proves to be a possibility that can again be achieved only by a genius. – It is a ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-24
... hermeneutics but not a proliferation of art, if in every small town, in an age in which virtuosos press themselves upon concert agents, journalists today require templates with which to make their submission, and for these purposes make use of Riemann’s lexicon ...
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Diary entry for 1914-01-26
... therefore can no longer gain an idea of how much more beautiful and expressive he could sing at the slow tempo without thereby offending against the law of what one could call forward motion. Of course, only a deepened art of singing could finally solve the ...
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Diary entry for 1914-08-01
... gezogen ist. Homer, 5. Gesang. Fifth canto of The Odyssey; the Schenkers had read the fourth canto the previous month (see diary entry for July 22). Trefflich die Art, wie Homer Kallypso gegenüber Odysseus den wahren Sachverhalt verschweigen läßt, so daß ...
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Diary entry for 1914-09-14
... to draw conclusions about their behavior in peacetime. To absorb the state interests only for themselves, to leave art and science and the military to one side, to augment their riches to the point of immeasurability and unproductivity, only that is ...
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Diary entry for 1914-10-10
... Stelle den Unterricht seines Sohnes übernehme. Nur ein eitler Sänger bringt es fertig, von einem ihm völlig fremden Menschen eine Leistung solcher Art, zumal unentgeltlich, zu verlangen. Möglicherweise denkt er daran, sich mit dem Vortrag von Weisses ...
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Diary entry for 1914-10-17
... 's Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments: the fifth imprint of the original edition (Berlin: Stage, 1856) and the new edition edited by Walter Niemann (Leipzig: Kahnt, 1906). See Musik und Theater enthaltend die Bibliothek des Herrn † Dr ...