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Diary entry for 1926-04-03
... for the opportunity in such comfort. The work has, to be sure, been done much unjustice, but also much justifiable criticism! For the theme of Redemption (Parsifal), Wagner has no real compositional technique; his technique was exclusively theatrical ...
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Diary entry for 1926-06-11
... my compositions and matters relating to publishing houses. To Saphier (express letter): I thank him for his great kindness and send him at the same time 25 shillings. To Weisse (express postcard): the Yearbook has been published. To Dahms (letter): I ...
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Diary entry for 1927-01-11
... perhaps relates to the bequest from Sofie Deutsch of stipends for "impecunious skilled composers and similarly qualified composition pupils," dating from 1917 and in Schenker's gift, but which Schenker had been contesting with the Akademie since 1924. The ...
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Diary entry for 1927-02-07
... 7. +2°, schön. Von der Akademie (Br.): wie ich nach meinem Ableben über das Stipendium i.e. the stipends for "impecunious skilled composers and similarly qualified composition pupils,” deriving from a bequest by Sofie Deutsch of 1917 and in Schenker ...
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Diary entry for 1927-10-09
... his compositional talent at a high level, although he is quite conscious that it is restricted to the art of song. Close attention to the way in which the poem is set out; the power to understand its essential meaning, which translates very well into ...
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Diary entry for 1927-12-06
... major for organ (also in Part IV of the PartitaClavierübung), performed by Schütz, and Bruckner's Symphony No. 8, conducted by Kabasta. All the beauties, both melodic and harmonic, are of no avail: there is no trace of compositional technique in Bruckner. ...
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Diary entry for 1927-12-11
... – to avoid catastrophes – developed the concept for him in a form that he will surely find new: in particular, not to continue counting from the viewpoint of normal periodization, but rather from the viewpoint of the compositional process. The ...
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Diary entry for 1928-05-03
... judgement. I could not hear enough of the impact of the arias; verily, they are motivated from within. The singers needed to add only little to liberate the expression from these genius-imbued compositions. The production was splendid, even if self ...
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Diary entry for 1928-08-27
... the peaches. From Oppel (postcard= OJ 13/10, [65]): the parts of a composition will be sent to Vienna. From Oskar, telegram: for the Hotel Traube one must make a reservation. We retire promptly. ...
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Diary entry for 1928-11-19
... , and by the standards of today's performers, beautiful. "Death and the Maiden" played by the Weißgärber Quartet; it had too little refinement. At 4 o'clock, the bells from the Lichtenthal Church; the church organist offered a composition that, in terms ...