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Searched for construction in Diaries (83 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1925-03-23

    ... ; according to his birth certificate, he is 69 years old! He is healthy and alert, was talkative the entire evening, apparently because we gave him the opportunity to show us his exercises in construction. ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-12-17

    ... word constructions: a negative one would lead to the suspicion that the voice-leading came to a halt, etc. ...

  • Diary entry for 1933-02-11

    ... accomplishment. The Barber of Seville from Rome – already in the overture the conductor goes wild: distortions of tempo in spite of such melodic construction! ( At 9 o’clock (on the 11th) broadcast from Rome, Barber of Seville: felicitous singing!! ) ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-03-14

    ... "simple refusal" on my part. Registered letterOC 16/32v (copied) by return of post to Dr. Friedmann: I explain the sense of the apparently exceptional construction of the stipend as a result of the testatrix's relationship to music, and her personal ...

  • Diary entry for 1909-12-15

    ... , etc.); but to that end he has exchanged nothing but a failed marriage, etc. Schnitzler achieves no decisive message: all is just as bad as it turns out to be; he appears pessimistically minded. Act I is technically very neatly constructed and developed. ...

  • Diary entry for 1910-06-01

    ... Association of Viennese Music Critics inviting Schenker, at the suggestion of Robert Hirschfeld, to give a lecture on "the construction of the Ninth Symphony" (OJ 14/44, [1]). Fourteen days later Universal Edition issued Schenker with a pre-contract agreement ...

  • Diary entry for 1911-05-30

    ... , and only virtue ‒ that's how they see it themselves ‒, whereas they do not grasp the constructive power of the great destroyers, indeed they have no desire whatsoever to grasp it! Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes, but what an average person gives you ...

  • Diary entry for 1911-10-18

    ... following takes place at a construction site: the driver of a heavy horse-drawn cart wishes to move an overweight waggonload from the spot, whereas the harnessed horses prove too weak. Another heavy horse-drawn carter turns up to assist his fellow driver. He ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-01-20

    ... that the time needed for theoretical construction of such shabbiness is the most minimal, and that, seen from this point of view, my supposed conversion signifies, admittedly, the ascent of the highest peak in the Himalayas. After all, it was just an ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-02-22

    ... because his nerves prevent him at the outset from taking part in the creative process that was needed to formulate it. Why should, for example, a businessman who exports shoes today and offers loans for construction tomorrow care how the product is made ...

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