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Diary entry for 1920-07-19
... Bruckner Mahler usw.; rege ihn an hierher zu kommen u. die 1600 Kronen Perhaps a stipend from the bequest of Sofie Deutsch for impecunious composers that was in Schenker's gift and that he had intended for some time to award to Dahms. entgegenzunehmen. An ...
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Diary entry for 1922-06-14
... Station. From Mittler (letter): complains about his inability to compose long works, balks at "politics." Fanny Violin 6:30–10:00; gave her the second issue of Tonwille for her brother and notice given of a visit on Monday. From UE: proofs of Op. 2 No. 2 ...
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Diary entry for 1922-10-22
... the end of the first movement and the development: G–B natural! Find I have been too timid by far; round off the concept of composing out of the upper voice as equivalent to an inner voice, but not Urlinie, especially ~2 ~1 ~7 = ~2 middle voice ...
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Diary entry for 1923-10-27
... the fate of the composer against the likewise sad fate of the painter, who is not safe from the restorer: only one single Boticelli in the Uffizi is untouched. Lie-Liechen at the district magistrate's office: pays 20,000 Kronen penalty for Marie. To ...
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Diary entry for 1926-03-01
... Strauß Vater: Lorley-Rheinklänge. This waltz, composed in 1843, became one of the elder Johann Strauss's most popular works. March 1, 1926, +1°. After lunch, the packages= OC 54/67 dispatched. The wife of Colonel Steiner offers us acceptable information ...
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Diary entry for 1926-09-02
... ; has not finished composing his Clarinet Quintet, to say nothing about writing it out in score; is already at work on a Cello Sonata. Gas bill: 15.20 shillings. The newspapers are still arriving via Galtür. From 9 o'clock until 10, in the Belvedere Park ...
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Diary entry for 1928-02-09
... that composers avail themselves of in writing a symphonic poem, too long and lacking in a plan. By contrast, how purposefully the symphonic poems of Smetana behave; with a folk song in them standing pars pro toto for the soul of the entire people; with ...
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Diary entry for 1928-04-09
... becomes clear to me why the composer is so fond of monotonously keeping time. ...
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Diary entry for 1928-05-20
... composed the "Eroica" Symphony, No. 92 in the Döblinger Hauptstraße, in the 19th district of Vienna (Döbling). Rf. 7h Haydn-Quartett Cmoll op. 17 = noch sehr einfach; von Mozart Quartett Bdur aus dem Jahre 1773 = noch einfacher. May 20, 1928, Sunday, fair ...
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Diary entry for 1929-04-14
... 14. Sonntag, regnerisch. ½12h zum Nicolai-Konzert: The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs an Otto Nicolai concert every year, in the composer's memory. IX. Sinfonie, Furtwängler; warte auf Weisse bis ¼1h, er kommt nicht! Furtwängler viel besser ...