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Diary entry for 1923-08-28
... Elias (picture postcard): is studying Op. 101, Miss Kahn Counterpoint; greetings. From Sophie (letter): Julian is joining up for military service and will dependent on his parents for a year; Hans is saving money and sending it home; is still counting on ...
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Diary entry for 1925-01-24
... York): I thank him for his continuing dedication to my Counterpoint. ...
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Diary entry for 1925-05-11
... counterpoint with distinction. From Anna (picture postcard) greetings from Budweis on the occasion of her visiting Paul. Dictation completed before noon; polished version of the first draft and "Urlinie Considerations" started. Lie-Liechen writes close to ...
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Diary entry for 1927-10-27
... from working out the necessary explanation on his own. It was indeed so obvious: first of all, I exposed the weaknesses of Reger's counterpoint in so many variations that a further exposition was unnecessary; secondly, had I made this fugue the object ...
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Diary entry for 1928-03-07
... 5,000 shillings, which I had asked him to return. With the money he had been spared giving me, Georg has bought a motorcycle! – well, all the counterpoint has gone down the drain there. At Steininger's, Lie-Liechen buys herself a nightgown: 290 ...
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Diary entry for 1931-07-18
... in the dining room (flirt’s corner). From Reigersberg (postcard): a highly successful caricature of Furtwängler – he thanks me for the article; he is reading Counterpoint at this very moment. From Baumgarten (picture postcard): reply to my ...
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Diary entry for 1931-07-25
... (postcard): what about Counterpoint 2? Again, a stomach ache after a good meal, gladly taken. From Weisse (letter): he encloses a letter from Khuner; he was in great need of recuperation; the director of the New York School is a very obliging gentleman! From ...
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Diary entry for 1933-02-16
... , Counterpoint 2. After teatime, weight: 81.40 kg., 59.60 kg.; a walk, windless once again. From Brockhaus (postcardOJ 9/21, [3]): UE inform them that Free Composition will not be published by them. To Kalmus (letter, and postcard from UEBrockhaus): how is this ...
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Diary entry for 1934-01-09
... . We speak about a new form of publicity, about the treatment of the music examples; at the end he reads out a letter from New York about the abbreviated editions of Theory of Harmony and Counterpoint! ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-23
... meet Schoenberg in the tramway car; he tells me that he was declared unfit for service or, as he later put it, he was dismissed. When, upon his asking me about my work, I told him that the second volume of Counterpoint was next in line, he asked whether ...