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Diary entry for 1908-01-12
... edited by Schenker in blue crayon; final version only given here: in left margin: Art of Performance end In the Philharmonic concert, the Serenade in D major by Brahms. Musicians and the public misjudge the composition. So then, even the sacrifice to the ...
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Diary entry for 1912-11-23
... drastischer, als es bis heute geschehen. November 23. A newspaper article reports the conferment of honors upon the two professors of composition who were so shamefully dismissed from the Academy. The newspaper reporter adds: "The respected professors have ...
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Diary entry for 1914-05-22
... three parts of the autograph manuscripts of Op. 111, two bear compositional corrections: the Bonn autograph of the first movement, and the second movement of the Berlin autograph. The first movement of the Berlin autograph is a fair copy, though there ...
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Diary entry for 1917-01-27
... deceive one of the primitive qualities of the composition. Field postcard to Weisse: I inform him of the death of Mrs. Deutsch, and of the stipend. Letter to Gärtner: I express my expectation that the piano pieces will surely make a good effect in the ...
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Diary entry for 1917-12-12
... Erlaubnis angehen müßte oder auf welche Weise sonst. Payment of one of the annual stipends "for impecunious skilled composers and composition pupils" left in her will by Sofie Deutsch, to be disbursed at Schenker's sole discretion, Vrieslander being one of ...
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Diary entry for 1918-02-06
... to be expected. Mrs. Pairamall shows me compositions by Schmidt, a village schoolmaster in Germany, who, she purports, is a great admirer of mine. Mrs. Pairamall has been approached by some middleman or other. Lisa Oesterreicher (Berliner Tageblatt ...
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Diary entry for 1921-01-05
... . (expr.): bei Hertzka gut abgelaufen, stehe Freitag oder Samstag im Cafehaus zur Verfügung. January 5, 1921 From Deetjen (letter from Barmen): about his changed circumstances. Geier appears at 9:30: his compositions are monotonous, primitive. At 4:00 run ...
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Diary entry for 1923-09-10
... :00; borrow the original edition of Op. 90, score of the Fifth Symphony and an incorrectly labeled copy of the symphony: "First fair copy of the author's composition from which he turned over the work for engraving and for the first print – acquired from the ...
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Diary entry for 1924-11-29
... , Bruckner's D-minor Mass: unbearable because of the dense composition. ...
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Diary entry for 1925-04-24
... ; prepare Scherzo and Adagio of the B-minor Sonata. Weisse at 12:00; he brings Simrock's rejection, impudently justified in that the composition did not bring anything "new!" I ask Weisse for the Reger-Telemann variations. Lie-Liechen plays Chopin etudes on ...