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Diary entry for 1917-08-30
... no other intellectual means at their disposal. Thus, for example, instead of ja, a merely expanded jao or jau; or Dienst, in which the expanded e after i receives it clearest expression. At 10:30, Lie-Liechen completes the manuscript of Counterpoint 2 ...
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Diary entry for 1917-08-31
... diligence and we are able to enjoy a tasty meal already at lunchtime. Postcard to Rothberger: I tell him that Counterpoint 2 is finished and add, in order to provide ourselves with amusement, my own assessment of the work: it will not only survive me, but ...
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Diary entry for 1917-09-01
... : Lie-Liechen informs her of the day of our departure and our fear of the Viennese profiteers (as demonstrated by the price list at the restaurant Grauer Bär in Innsbruck), and asks for first aid until September 12; she repeats the news that Counterpoint ...
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Diary entry for 1928-08-30
... theme made him suspect; only then the utterly un-organ-like figuration, which was more suitable for a harp; finally the counterpoint in consecutive fifths – not the result of mixture – made an impression of complete immaturity. A pity that the listeners ...
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Diary entry for 1929-11-30
... : the con brio in the first movement was missing; Casals divides the slurs and thus holds up the counterpoint; a double bar-line in the development section, arbitrarily placed by the printers, leads Casals to commit a violation of the sense: he begins ...
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Diary entry for 1931-12-02
... tells me that Dr. Jonas has been appointed, by Paul Graener, to the Stern Conservatory for the specific purpose of teaching my Counterpoint treatise; – Hoboken has let his abandonment of piano playing now encompass the Urlinie; he finds it too difficult ...
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Diary entry for 1911-08-17
... in Counterpoint 2 if I am to make a mark for myself."On August 18 he wrote to Moriz Violin that he had "sat for three weeks poring over Riemann" (OJ 6/5, [1]). This letter makes clear that the work was in preparation for Kontrapunkt II, although there ...
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Diary entry for 1915-01-17
... program of work, and that we should rather take up thoroughbass only after studying counterpoint. ...
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Diary entry for 1916-09-01
... . LetterOJ 10/1, [23] from Dahms: new address; he hopes to be released from military service completely and asks about the position at the Der Abend. Decision to depart early on Wednesday 6th, primarily to get proper work done on Counterpoint 2 still this ...
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Diary entry for 1917-01-28
... is right to rely on old models; I confess, however, that I myself follow a more rigorous method, which does not spare the layman from acquiring knowledge of the basic principles of counterpoint; I then return to his article of 1914, sent most recently ...