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Diary entry for 1919-02-03
... 3. Weisse, erschüttert von Enthüllungen der Appassionata: „Da sollte man eigentlich das Komponieren aufgeben“! 3 Weisse, shaken by the unveiling of the Appassionata: "One should really just give up composing"! ...
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Diary entry for 1932-10-31
... 31. Vormittag Postweg. Brünauer macht keine Miene zu zahlen. Rf.: eine Kalman-Feier in bester Ausführung! According to the radio listings in the Neue freie Presse, the program – in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the composer’s birth – was ...
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Diary entry for 1907-01-03
... 3.1. √ Ablieferung des 1. u. 2. Satzes. Generalprobe zu Mahler's VI. Symph.The premier of the Sixth Symphony was given in the Grosser Musikvereinssaal at 8 p.m. on January 4, with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of the composer. Ein Werk ...
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Diary entry for 1907-10-24
... Donnst. 24. 10. „Tonkünstlerorch.“ Unter StavenhagenBernhard Stavenhagen (1862‒1914). German pianist (Liszt pupil), composer and conductor, who in 1895 became court conductor in Weimar and in 1898 Munich, before moving in 1907 to Geneva, where he ...
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Diary entry for 1909-02-03
... February 3, 1909 Mendelssohn's 100th birthday. It still remains unacknowledged that Mendelssohn was one of the very greatest composers. Instead of well-deserved gratitude and overdue recognition, all we get is goodwill and forbearance. ...
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Diary entry for 1913-03-26
... 26. Antwort an Holstein. In the diary entry for March 13, Schenker records receiving a letter from a Franz von Holstein from Riga, possibly a relative of the German composer Franz von Holstein (1826–78). Azalee im blühen! Da sie blüht behält sie ...
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Diary entry for 1907-01-22
... Vermächtnissen u. Lösungen der Großen! 22. -16° √ The blue of the sky! The Konzertverein presents Bruckner's Fifth Symphony: execrable indolence on the part of the composer. Choral finale, dragged in by the scruff of its neck, forcibly imposed on the public as on ...
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Diary entry for 1907-03-04
... die Debatte. 07,‒ 3 Mon. 4 In the evening, debate with Dr. Hirschfeld over the technique of prolongation of the content, especially over that of entrances in the vocal style of the old composers, and the parallel appearance in instrumental music! — In ...
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Diary entry for 1920-12-06
... like to compose for four solo voices with piano accompaniment. The remainder of "Moonlight" Sonata dictated. Heini brings Beuschel with dumplings. ...
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Diary entry for 1928-09-14
... clothes. Shopping; before dinner, dictation for Der freie Satz. Radio: Buxbaum – Meirecker: Beethoven, Op. 59, No. 2. Without any rapport with the composer; a droning-out, in the manner of children reciting poetry. ...