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  • Diary entry for 1917-01-30

    ... think about a piano reduction and that, moreover, even a piano reduction should not be composed in that way. Halm shows me a suite and yet another work; and owing to a mistake at the post office, the envelope contains a letter that was mailed from ...

  • Diary entry for 1924-01-30

    ... hören, Der Tonwille Heft 3 (1922), 2; Eng. transl., I, p. 118: "I asked a highly gifted composer on one occasion ...." Lie-Liechen mit Marie zum 2. Mal bei Frühmann. Mit Lie-Liechen im Schweizerpark. An Detoni (K.): frage nach dem Umbruch des 5. u. 6 ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-12-11

    ... . – (To my Lie-Liechen, the psychological heart of the matter may of course be explained differently.) With the success of his attempts at composition came, understandably, the courage to compose further. He was strengthened in this course by the erotic ...

  • Diary entry for 1909-07-01

    ... that the work of an impoverished composer like Schubert becomes the source of wealth creation for posterity. Mozart and Wagner are cited as other cases in the Niedergang essay from 1906–07: "Just reckon the monetary value of, for instance, the works of ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-03-16

    ... do no further harm to Wagner, since the effect made by this composer would first have to be refuted by a stronger, healthier one, or at least matched by the insight into the higher artistic ranking of a Mozart – neither of which possibility can any ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-09-29

    ... , November 10, 1913. 29. A second letterOJ 5/28, [1] to Peters composed – but neither of the two letters sent off, since Floriz's advice that I should leave the letter from Peters unanswered seemed the best way of punishing Peters for the arrogance so ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-01-27

    ... a result of insufficient relationship to income. In this way – in order to put the end result into words – the murderer Hopf, as someone who acquires, stands much closer to humanity in general than any poet, composer, philosopher, or suchlike. One ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-10-08

    ... Emil Hertzka his intention to approach the Prussian Ministry of Culture and to point out, in a memorandum, that it is high time to set up autograph archives in order to save the music manuscripts of the great composers from decay. Abends Fl. mit beiden ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-11-15

    ... . Bach and to no other composer from a pithy bass line, and thus a short extract bears witness to the overall structure of the genius-driven intellect, – in the same way, the extract from a work by Bach bears witness, in further prolongation, even to the ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-02-04

    ... itself much too harshly. For as he was able to bring out a certain poetic quality in his performance through his innate abilities, in spite of any hastiness, so the analogous manifestations naturally resurface even when he composes. ...

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