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Diary entry for 1924-12-16
... them out lyrically; some even sped up too much! I fear Furtwängler will now generally play faster than is called for, failing to recognize what I call Urlinie. He believes he can achieve that by crowding together the contents, hence the foreground, and ...
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Diary entry for 1933-05-16
... on May 28, 1933, and in two installments in the Neue freie Presse on May 28 and 31, 1933. http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nfp&datum=19330528&seite=9&zoom=33 http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nfp&datum=19330531&seite=10&zoom=33 ...
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Diary entry for 1933-06-30
... Furtwängler for dereliction of "artistic duty" by not mentioning Schenker’s name in his opening address for the Brahms festival http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nfp&datum=19330528&seite=9&zoom=33
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Diary entry for 1907-04-09
... because you still have not understood him at all. Otherwise you would precisely by virtue of this understanding at any time have had to see recognize and make possible Brahms's original position vis-à-vis his own problems. Kunwald affected to be content ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-19
... about autograph manuscripts that bear significant amounts of compositional corrections, or those whose handwriting offers clues to performance, as opposed to the relatively "clean" presentation of the contents of a Mozart score. 19. Letter from my sister ...
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Diary entry for 1914-01-22
... absent. We harbored the suspicion that she would gladly have made our acquaintance, but that Floriz seemed just as happy that circumstances thwarted an encounter! Letter and package from Dr. Steinitz. In a certain sense of indecent content, since in the ...
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Diary entry for 1914-11-29
... 29. November 1914 From the content of the entries that follow, it is clear that Jeanette forgot to add the new date here. Trotzdem meine Erkältung heute stärker als gestern hervortrat, fuhr ich dennoch mit Lie-Liechen zu Mama, Dort treffen wir ...
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Diary entry for 1915-05-16
... Neue freie Presse publishes a feuilleton by Hofmannsthal about Grillparzer's political testament, in which a wealth of thoughts are presented without being guided in the same direction towards the same goal, also without being rounded in content or form ...
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Diary entry for 1915-11-28
... performance of the classical works left everything to be desired, whereas in the modern works it was the content that left everything to be desired, especially the Dream Pantomime! What a strangulation of a single motive, and one that is itself but a wretched ...
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Diary entry for 1917-02-15
... says that he is not in a position to gain access to the C. P. E. Bach manuscripts in Brussels and therefore suggests a different content for the edition. Hertzka sends Mittler's Op. 5 and Op. 6, piano pieces and songs of relatively good compositional ...