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Diary entry for 1910-06-01
... cantatas by J. S. Bach was dropped. So all the tribulation that I underwent on the pieces for the concert and bore so nobly (during the proof correcting of Counterpoint I and the difficult task of formulating the Introduction) ‒ was in vain. The cause of ...
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Diary entry for 1915-01-14
... in counterpoint from Prof. Mandyczewski last year; he fled his teacher after a short time, about which even Robert said not a word to me at the time. Once again it has come out in the open that the Viennese like to behave like an illegitimate child ...
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Diary entry for 1915-03-24
... artistic leader! But how is one to dictate to Nature, which has decreed the ordering of generations in one immutable way and not another, that something must go in precisely the opposite direction. By the time my Theory of Harmony and Counterpoint appeared ...
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Diary entry for 1915-06-21
... likewise without foundation. With Dr. Frühmann, who finds my heart in order. The print of Op. 111 arrives. Our joy over it is very great; for the quicker this work is taken care of, the nearer the actual goal, the second volume of Counterpoint can be ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-15
... he cites me as an authority with a passage from my Counterpoint 1. From Mendl, invitation to a lecture. From Sophie (postcard) enquiring about Mama's health. Lie-Liechen (postcard) to Sophie. Letter to Mendl, returning the invitation on account of ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-28
... by the executive board. Postcard from Prof. Herzfeld; he asks about other works, which have been written since the publication of Counterpoint 1. Vienna is only today decked out with flags, and moreover rather sparsely. Even in front of a mirror, a ...
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Diary entry for 1916-04-24
... suchlike have spent their lives in one way or another. Newspapers report Germany’s determination against America. Up to "Tied Notes" in Counterpoint 2. What is difficult to work out is: how would an unintelligent person be able to conceive of the lack of ...
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Diary entry for 1917-01-17
... Counterpoint 2 or concurrently with it." PostcardOJ 8/3, [28] to Floriz: to flesh things out, I recount to him the matters relating to the Bankverein; I declare his critique welcome, insofar as it can now spur me on to claim this money through the lawyer ...
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Diary entry for 1918-01-16
... dreier Kontrapunkte zweiter Gattung (The Combination of Two or Three Counterpoints of the Second Species), Eng. trans. John Rothgeb (New York: Schirmer Books, 1987), pp. 174–86/178–980. abgeschloßen. Arbeiter-Streiks in Wien wegen auf die Hälfte ...
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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 ...