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  • Diary entry for 1912-11-07

    ... demonstrate that the composers are not familiar with the essence of harmony. ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-05-06

    ... space on the Prinzregentenplatz in the Bogenhausen district of Munich. The unveiling took place on May 21, a day before the centennial of the composer's birth. Public participation was great. Among those present were the initiator, Ernst von Possart, and ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-10-09

    ... ), Weisse would probably have specified the younger composer's name or initials. austauschen, deren Vorzüge er überaus warm u. begeistert pries. Im Gespräch traten die beiden Herren einander näher u. der fremde Herr entpuppte sich als ein türkischer ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-01-03

    ... recounted that once Brahms, allegedly out of anger, cried out to him: "You're good enough only to study with dilettantes." A definition which, as Miss Kahn says, was just as to the point as everything else that Brahms composed! Letter from Dr. Hübsch with ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-02-18

    ... insufficiently critical understanding. German response to America and the neutral countries: an extremely dignified, composed yet also very strong presentation of the motives that prompted Germany's measures against England. And yet, unfortunately, still too ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-02-27

    ... turns up to tell me the following: Adler has greatly softened his stance, under the influence of his, Weisse's, work and says that he should "dedicate himself to it" if he does not otherwise want to dedicate himself to composing. In addition, he has put ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-12-01

    ... principles hindered any effect that the composer may have intended. Tempi, and the realization of details, diverged even within the same aria, or between one orchestral player and another, or between orchestra and singer; and everyone played as well as they ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-10-03

    ... -artistic synthesis, culture evidently suffers from having to exclude the possibility of an organization by a single artistic head, as is otherwise ensured from the outset in a field of pure art through the personality of a poet, composer, sculptor, or philosopher ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-11-06

    ... ideas; would you perhaps compose something for me, which I can use as a model?" Hellmesberger fulfills the assignment. Thereupon the count invites the court conductor Bayer to his place and says to him: "I have no small talent for composition, but ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-03-25

    ... pretends, to himself and his readers, that he sacrificed himself to the audience this winter to help them get through the misery of the war, but that he now intends to return to composing for the foreseeable future. ...

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