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Diary entry for 1920-06-30
... coffee! Miss Elias comes for [her] last lesson; on parting, she says that she will certainly not leave my work for Cotta in a lurch. I accept that the read-through of Counterpoint 2 must be given up at the moment. To Floriz (postcard): twelve kilograms of ...
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Diary entry for 1921-06-24
... Kontrapunkt he began to wonder, since he regarded me, like all other theorists, as riding my hobby horse; he could also not comprehend how it could be possible to date music only from Bach onwards, while at the same time teaching strict counterpoint etc ...
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Diary entry for 1923-10-03
... against Kurth's Linear Counterpoint! To Professor Oppel (postcard): I ask how he is. To Waldheim & Eberle (postcard): I ask for name and address of "A. H." ...
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Diary entry for 1924-02-05
... Counterpoint volumes, which Hertzka of course would surely print! From Hammer invitation to the opening of the exhibition. After lunch in the sun walk to the park, then via the Belvedere, took this opportunity to view the Baroque museum (12,000 Kronen). The ...
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Diary entry for 1926-10-03
... wrested from him: whether it might not be possible to teach counterpoint already in the Ursatz, in order to bypass the laborious and extensive aspects of counterpoint and bring the pupil closer to the actual problems of free composition. I have warned him ...
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Diary entry for 1930-11-22
... is the cause of their racing to the heights; and soon think they are so high that they – want to outpace me! Thus for example Vrieslander with his "Urtönen," instead of accepting the Urlinie in the first place; Roth in his book on counterpoint, Dr ...
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Diary entry for 1930-12-01
... even in this respect he is governed by the following rule: cut out at birth as a songwriter, he went with me through the study of harmony and counterpoint, which were able to lead him so fortunately to the point where he could finally write beautiful ...
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Diary entry for 1916-12-06
... vicious circle. Appropriation of what has gone before is like a soul's journey through the souls of preceding geniuses. At the moment, only the powers of destruction are visible in Germany: classicism as the school of syntheses contested; in counterpoint ...
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Diary entry for 1916-09-08
... 8, 1916. Partly cloudy, rain from time to time! Letter to Karpath: I am entirely satisfied with Germany, it is just with Austria that I am dissatisfied; for example, Mr. Wiener, my publisher; I communicate the completion of Counterpoint 2 and also ...
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Diary entry for 1908-04-04
... orchestra, over the top of which the voice strides in declamatory fashion, in accordance with the laws of counterpoint and yet truly mellifluous to the voice (the St Matthew Passion or the cantata Selig ist der Mann, likewise later in the songs of Schubert ...