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Diary entry for 1934-06-10
... " about me, to visit me in the summer and show me his compositions. Swelling completely subsided. ...
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Diary entry for 1934-06-19
... publish Free Composition. A few days later Schenker received the contract from the publishers, which he signed and returned on July 7; see the diary entries from June 23 and July 7, 1934. Stellungnahme zu seinem Korrekturvorbehalt – nur kein „Ueber ...
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Diary entry for 1934-07-10
... (letter): the signed contract for Free Composition. At 9:45, to the Naßfeld Valley! in the hotel car. The natural setting is astonishingly large; the heroic quality of the landscape, which complements the mountain peaks, would stand out even stronger if ...
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Diary entry for 1934-08-17
... the coffee garden. Upstairs at 10:45: dictation for the Foreword to Free Composition, until 11:30. From Rotschild, the book by Jonas returned – a reply to my letter is missing. From Miss Elias (letterOJ 10/18, [8]): her mother has already been buried ...
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Diary entry for 1934-09-11
... notebook for Free Composition. Klemperer from 5 to 7:45!!! He speaks in my favor, and passionately, which gives me relief! And yet the duration of his visit is calamitous, since it basically amounts to instruction, to formal tuition – what young person can ...
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Diary entry for 1934-09-25
... tomorrow at 10 o’clock. Hoboken for the first time, from 5:30 to 7 o’clock: I show him what I showed Breisach and Klemperer; I also tell him that I cannot think of moving until after I have completed the corrections for Free Composition; – he asks if he ...
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Diary entry for 1936-07-23
... Carlos Friedemann. The prospectus for Free Composition is already on display; Mr. B. must be a man of qualities after all. The sales lady – or owner? – asks me to come to her once again; I promise to do so. ...
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Diary entry for 1908-04-04
... ‒ with its fixed framework, its intervention in the polyphonic implications, and its support ‒ offered to the polyphony, to the compositional structure of the older works. What alternative does Ferrari now offer for such form? Brahms, in his Requiem ...
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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 ...
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Diary entry for 1908-01-15
... ."Eine längst ... begriffen": the meaning of this sentence is far from clear. Perhaps Schenker intended to write "nicht" after "noch": "A tried and tested technique in composition, to this day still almost entirely not understood [or adopted]." √ Busoni spielt ...