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  • Diary entry for 1926-03-23

    ... Begleiter eine öde Gestalt, ähnlich der Wunderers. März 23, 1926, –2°, snowfall. Cube shows me a letter from his sister, which describes the conditions in Berlin as still more unfavorable than those in Vienna. Fulfilling an order from her, he composes ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-01-11

    ... perhaps relates to the bequest from Sofie Deutsch of stipends for "impecunious skilled composers and similarly qualified composition pupils," dating from 1917 and in Schenker's gift, but which Schenker had been contesting with the Akademie since 1924. The ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-02-07

    ... 7. +2°, schön. Von der Akademie (Br.): wie ich nach meinem Ableben über das Stipendium i.e. the stipends for "impecunious skilled composers and similarly qualified composition pupils,” deriving from a bequest by Sofie Deutsch of 1917 and in Schenker ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-11-12

    ... not become anything other than what he was, he was indeed always more than a composer of waltzes and operettas; he was an inventor and synthesist of genius, even if he practised this synthesis in the narrowest range. In the past, the Philharmonic ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-02-16

    ... " which Brahms used as the theme for his Variations Op. 56, is no longer believed to have been composed by Haydn. February 16, 1928, fair weather, +12°. From Dr. Baumgarten (picture postcard): he will appear. To Mozio (letter): I ask for 5,000 shillings ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-04-15

    ... -Kon- zert: The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs an Otto Nicolai concert every year, in the composer's memory. Furtwängler spielt das Brandenburgische Konzert Ddur selbstgefühlsmäßig wie immer, also eigentlich immer im Irrtum, doch mit auffällig vielen ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-10-14

    ... Presse, this was a symphonic poem, Carneval, by Paul Tietjens. (Tietjens, an American composer, wrote most of the music for The Wizard of Oz, in 1902.) Tschaykowski Sinfonie Emoll – eigentlich eine private Angelegenheit. Frl. Alice Weiss spielt Beethoven ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-05-19

    ... as a composer. 19, Sunday, cloudy, 14°. Correction of the first draft of the "Eroica" essay, continuation of the Brahms Variations. In the evening, Toscanini! In the opera box, the mother of Mrs. Hoboken, Mr. and Mrs. Hoboken, Deutsch, and the two of ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-06-12

    ... :15, out of the house: many errands, among them also Chasalla (Lie-Liechen is deemed to be well); a pair of linen shoes (13.40 shillings) for me (not from Chasalla). 7:15 to 10 o'clock, Dr. Weisse; he does not say a word about composing, is persistent in ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-12-09

    ... : program and execution of great interest; his gifts as a composer always point to a more refined technique than is otherwise found among virtuoso players. If he nonetheless commits the most serious offenses against the basic principles of performance, that ...

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