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Diary entry for 1932-06-19
... dictation for the manuscript of Free Composition. To Deutsch (letter): concerning the last conversation with Hoboken: liquidation of his residency in Vienna. I ask him to gain Hofmeister as the commission publishing house. I mention the article by Jonas. To ...
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Diary entry for 1932-07-27
... explain the work, and the delay in Free Composition. To Vrieslander (postcard): I ask him to decide whether he wants to write a notice himself or through me. To Oppel (letter, dictated): concerning a seminarist; on the little book on thoroughbass by Bach ...
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Diary entry for 1932-08-25
... ! +15°. Breakfast on the balcony. Completion of the figures for "Reaching Over" for Free Composition. Between 11 and 12 o’clock, in conversation with the baroness: about an illness of her sister’s. From Vrieslander (letter): he asks me to intercede with ...
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Diary entry for 1932-08-30
... for "Unfolding" for Free Composition on the balcony. From Miss Vornkeller (letter and prospectus): belated explanation of her visit. From Vrieslander (postcard): he has now received two copies of the Schubert. At lunch, the porter announces that ...
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Diary entry for 1932-09-21
... pages from Free Composition with Lie-Liechen; she writes until 11 o’clock. ...
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Diary entry for 1934-09-29
... (letterOJ 11/16, [15]): his letter crossed with mine; he is sticking with his plan to write something about me, in that Jonas is "excellent" – he apologizes for not turning up during the summer! At 12:45, the fourth notebook for Free Composition is ...
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Diary entry for 1907-12-27
... , understand Brahms's rebuke, and pontificates ‒ composition theory! What a sorry fate is that of a Brahms, in the midst of so few friends and artists who understood or reached out to him! All the better to treasure the lovely pull toward Brahms and to marvel ...
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Diary entry for 1919-08-29
... living together freely with his second; . I then break in to outline a broad plan of study suitable to occupy him for over a year. I remarked that although he has to enjoy species counterpoint without setting his sights on free composition, since ...
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Diary entry for 1925-07-01
... of other real artists of composition do, e.g., Keller, and fails to describe them sufficiently enough that they are suitable both as unique individuals and as types. It is a contradiction when he so ironically lets loose on the poetaster Spinell ...
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Diary entry for 1907-09-29
... Ages, but less one of belief than of ‒ commercialism! The work of art ‒ a network of ideas and intentions. In modern compositions, so-called moods from time to time collect ‒ just as water does in various places on the earth's surface. Even where wealth ...