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Searched for composers in Diaries (236 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1918-07-03

    ... could have been even greater had he continued to accompany me on my path through life with more acumen, with less envy, with more affability, as he did for so many years. But it should never be forgotten of him that he gave many Lieder composers their ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-12-18

    ... remember, but somewhere I read about it – and thus it was possible for him to believe that he could cast Brahms as a composer with a specialism for clarinet music and thus thought he was pointing out a special feature about Brahms's being. The occasion, in ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-02-15

    ... from the opera house The Taming of the Shrew by Goetz: a thoroughly delightful, genuinely serious comedy, executed with considerable artistry, which stands high above all the products of the Italian composers, and indeed above the Germans, that is ...

  • Diary entry for 1931-05-06

    ... ,000 marks, he would not be concerned about obtaining this sum. Weisse is clear in his own mind that my theory cannot directly serve the purpose of making every halfway musical person capable of composing; it provides only enlightenment about the masterworks ...

  • Diary entry for 1907-02-08

    ... 'Indy, Chanson Op. 50, very well written. Wolf-Ferrari devoid of talent, indolent, brought down by lack of technique right through to the sonorities of the "Female Choruses." Schoenberg ‒ an embarrasing fiasco on the part of the composer and his friends! Some ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-04-05

    ... Schwind, a member of the Schubert circle and a close friend of the composer's. Nach dem Konzert mit Fr. D. zu Tisch. Ungünstige Wirkung mehrerer zu wenig durchschlafener Nächte! 5. Lecture by Otto Erich Deutsch for the benefit of Schubert's niece; with Mrs ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-04-30

    ... wide distances, the slurring of the same motives is internally inconsistent. Did Beethoven take less notice of this because of lack of time, or as a result of other circumstances? Or did the matter seem to the overworked composer sufficiently presented ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-09-04

    ... ) Noch erinnert uns das X-chen Mit Lärm u. Thrän’, mit Schrei u. Kixchen, Kix (Kicks): archaic Austrian German for Gickser. Mit kühnem Brausen, matter Stretta An Herrn Schönbergs Sinfonietta. Probably Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9, composed ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-12-18

    ... , wenn man nach getaner Arbeit u. vom Anblick Brahms’scher Blätter Probably Brahms's manuscript entitled Octaven und Quinten u. a. containing instances of parallel fifths and octaves in the works of other composers, on which Schenker was to write a ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-05-18

    ... 18. V. 14 Die revidierte Abschrift von Beethoven Op. 111 trifft ein. This copy of the sonata, in the hand of Beethoven's copyist Wenzel Rampel with the composer's corrections, is now in the Beethoven House, Bonn. Gegen Abend überaus starkes Gewitter ...

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