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  • Diary entry for 1925-03-30

    ... between themes is good, but a certain control of the registers is still lacking, which would mask the composer's intentions a little; the point is too clearly stated instead of giving the impression that it came without intention. In the second movement I ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-04-11

    ... which he himself does not believe. Since he is also lacking insight into the higher demands and achievements, he believes he has to argue for Bruckner as he would for a composer who has something to say. It is of no use to try to make it clear to him ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-11-02

    ... understood in composing-out. Brünauer pays for the portrait, but pays only one million Kronen for the month, as the two female pupils of the day bring no money. ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-01-05

    ... subtitles (on a German folksong) by an Italian composer active in Vienna, later murdered by the Turks is thoroughly uninteresting in its figurations, although it is richly decorated. Even the choice of piece by Couperin was not the most fortunate – Wührer ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-03-22

    ... performed by two or several instruments. He played two pieces by Schumann, "Langsam" u. "Mit Humor," with incomparable beauty – he concluded the concert with a sonata by Bréval, a Parisian cello virtuoso and composer who also has synthesis-bearing merits ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-11-30

    ... improvisation; of Brahms, a composing score of the Paganini Variations, and so on; the fair copies are less interesting: Beethoven's Op. 78, a Prelude and Fugue in B minor by Bach, Brahms's Op. 5; and so on. The head of the business, (Hinterberger?) complains ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-05-28

    ... repeated now extremely loud, now extremely soft. Suck und Novak were even weaker. The conductor did a disservice by exporting these works in the first place! The warmth of the strings was agreeably conspicuous; otherwise, these poor composers do not enable ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-09-18

    ... Frenchman! In terms of art, the question of instrument has no role to play; for the smallest and least developed instruments, the most deeply conceived pieces were written; for the most developed, no more music of any use whatever is being composed. That the ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-12-01

    ... theory from a practical point of view. And so he succeeded, deservedly, in overtaking the assistants and promoters in my circle and in taking, from the riches of his activities as a teacher and composer of chamber music, the necessary equipment needed to ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-12-31

    ... thematisch verwertet sehen. See diary entry for November 25, 1930, in which Schenker records sending Berrsche a Brahms anecdote, in which the composer has the punch-line: "But just look beyond the eighth bar!" Von Reigersberg (K.): dankt für meine Mitteilung ...

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