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• Diary entry for 1916-09-10

  ... construction, including Richard Riemerschmid, Heinrich Tessenow and Hermann Muthesius. Hellerau attracted cultural visionaries from all over Europe such as the dancer, choreographer and pioneer of expressionist dance Mary Wigman and the composer Émile Jaques ...

• Diary entry for 1916-10-21

  ... musical matter that specifically concerns him. He composes, so he says, but he can neither read nor write musical notation fluently, and cannot get around the keyboard in even a half-competent manner. The man revealed himself in so many ways the typical ...

• Diary entry for 1917-01-13

  ... me already that his sister has established a stipend for impecunious composers, the awarding of which she has assigned to me alone; that, further, she has bequeathed to me an annuity of 2,000 Kronen for the duration of my life, payable in two ...

• Diary entry for 1919-08-29

  ... genius has the right to compose. I clear up the misunderstanding and again emphasize that I only wish to see poor composition and dishonesty banned from art, and incidentally also gladly honor talent when it is aware of its distance from genius, since ...

• Diary entry for 1919-10-26

  ... made the effort for them. I praise his drawing attention to diminution: the way it sheds light on the path of art in general and of the composer specifically, and is thus vital to those who will create in the future when they wish to travel down that ...

• Diary entry for 1924-01-21

  ... how I can be of service, he seizes my hands and thanks me tearfully for my works, which afford him so much support; he relates that he has composed two operas and so forth, and in his time of need has lived from teaching gymnastic exercises. We speak ...

• Diary entry for 1925-07-01

  ... statement about the work and the author. I find him to be like Reger, unsure of the vantage point, from which the entirety is to be seen, composing by measure and by various part-writings at the same time. It is not humor, but rather an unripe irony that ...

• Diary entry for 1928-11-13

  ... , the composers mooted for counter-examples are Bruckner, Reger, and Hindemith. Von Vrieslander (Br.): dankt für den Abend u. wiederholt, was wir schon mündlich von ihm gehört. 37.49 S. für die Krankenkasse (Hausgehilfin). Der Regenschirm ist nicht bei ...

• Diary entry for 1911-08-20

  ... newspapers on June 3, 1911 declares his intention to deliver lectures entitled "Decline of the Art of Music," in which "works of several composers (Strauss, Reger, Debussy, etc.)" would be criticized. (The lectures were not delivered.) A swingeing attack on ...

• Diary entry for 1915-06-17

  ... which the eternal greatness of the composer and man was never to be observed. This regrettable fact could, I believed, be traced to the fact that the painters, at a time when the great man was still alive, that is, when he stood in front of them burdened ...

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