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Diary entry for 1897-02-07
... ‒ judgment of my compositions. Rather often I go to the Café Landtmann to see Goldmark. He shares his reminiscences: publisher Kistner said to him: "Are you asking for the same honorarium for your Trio that Schubert got for his Trio?... That without further ...
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Diary entry for 1897-06-07
... so as to preserve their position between other, fully dated, items, namely those of May 31 and September 12, bearing in mind that Schenker was probably on vacation from the middle of June to early September. Ser. B, {1} June 7 In modern compositions ...
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Diary entry for 1906-11-13
... arrive from Cotta. final version only: In the evening: concert by Josef Hofmann. Technique of the artist: so to speak, a complete unity of body and hands, thus making the most satisfying impression. The real heart of the composition is however only very ...
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Diary entry for 1908-03-11
... (1725) (quoting Mitzler), Albrechtsberger, Gründliche Anweisung zur Composition (1790), Cherubini, Cours de contrepoint et de fugue (1835), and Graedener, System der Harmonielehre (1877). Im Konzertver. Abends: „Meerest. u. Glückl-Fahrt“ von Mendelss. u ...
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Diary entry for 1913-09-06
... Altruismus an!! So lange den Menschen solche u. aehnliche Züge eigentümlich bleiben werden, muß das Leben eine bittere schwere Last sein. 6. I dream that concertmaster Rosé, in order to punish his audience for their lack of sympathy for the modern composition ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-19
... about autograph manuscripts that bear significant amounts of compositional corrections, or those whose handwriting offers clues to performance, as opposed to the relatively "clean" presentation of the contents of a Mozart score. 19. Letter from my sister ...
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Diary entry for 1916-09-11
... congratulates me on completing Counterpoint 2, tells me about his attempts at composition. A few errands in the morning; unfortunately, a futile one for coffee. We are preoccupied by the question of a gas burner, even a gas oven. Meatless, according to the ...
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Diary entry for 1917-02-15
... says that he is not in a position to gain access to the C. P. E. Bach manuscripts in Brussels and therefore suggests a different content for the edition. Hertzka sends Mittler's Op. 5 and Op. 6, piano pieces and songs of relatively good compositional ...
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Diary entry for 1920-07-25
... entwickelten Knaben, der ihr gehört! Die Unbefangenheit war wieder auch in diesem Falle versöhnend. Von starker kühler Luft angegriffen früh zu Bette. 25 Sunday; pleasantly overcast. Lie-Liechen takes the covers off the free composition. 9:45 toward Scharnitz ...
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Diary entry for 1920-07-26
... "Jew newspaper." Straightening up the opened notebooks on free composition 8–8, 5–5. Rain and a storm at around 3:30; extraordinarily brightly colored rainbow: every color in a broad band; accompanied by a secondary rainbow! After a short pause, the ...