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  • Diary entry for 1914-10-10

    ... my place. Only a vain singer can succeed in demanding a service from person who is completely unknown to him, and all the more so without pay. Perhaps he is thinking of compensating by performing Weisse's compositions. But even this reward should be ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-11-24

    ... , which, as he says, caused him deep pains, nearly more than the desolation caused by the war. The boy is thus beginning to sense within his own body that which some time ago called me away from compositional activities and placed me in the service of my ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-03-24

    ... other musicians and others, he had the leisure and the will to take me under his wing when I entered the Conservatory on an imperial scholarship. It was he who paid attention to my compositions, introduced me to Epstein (who from time to time provided me ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-06-29

    ... . Notification of the new address given to the post office and newspaper distributor. Message to Breisach. Mrs. Pairamall sends some "song compositions" by her daughter. ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-02-14

    ... der verhängnisvollenr Melancholie u. Unterwürfigkeit. 14. –6°; the frost increases. PostcardOC 52/192 from U.E.: Hertzka tells me that he will send me Mittler's compositions on his behalf and that he has sent him Op. 110 and Op. 111. Postcard from Roth ...

  • Diary entry for 1918-01-16

    ... zum freien Satz (Bridges to Free Composition), Section 1, Mischung der fünf Gattungen bei fortgesetzter Zugrundelegung eines C. f. (Combinations of the Five Species with Continued Use of a Cantus Firmus as a Basis), chapter 1, Mischung zweier oder ...

  • Diary entry for 1918-05-08

    ... , also read Bußler's Freier Satz and seen found him to quite miss the point with regard to the secret of free composition; playing the clarinet better and better and about to play the Brahms sonatas; asks for a short response. Spoke to Mrs. Gärtner in the ...

  • Diary entry for 1918-06-27

    ... an actual history of compositional technique. The student conducts best who learns direct from the author – the necessary stuff can only be discovered from the author himself, and unfortunately not from any textbook. Lie-Liechen pickles 60 and 39 eggs ...

  • Diary entry for 1920-01-18

    ... that I maintain my health, also in the interest of the publisher; identify II/2 as the most important, in which I prove the identity of free composition and strict counterpoint, viewing the analyses, therefore, merely as examples – however, current ...

  • Diary entry for 1924-04-17

    ... , elbowing, whoring etc. Even if the historical background is effective, here, with the greater weight of the purely human, that can only prove advantageous to the art. The play teems with motifs, saturating every element of the composition, the historical ...

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