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Diary entry for 1916-12-15
... is pursuing theory and not art. – In the end, the following emerged: "Doctor Schenker, you surely have a few free lesson times; could I not come to you on some day other than Friday, so that I can depart on Friday?" I could certainly not dispute 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 1911-05-10
... that ‒ apart from their dramatic function ‒ pay due tribute to the art of poetry in its own right. Only in the choruses does poetry have free reign. But admittedly what we today regard as poetic metaphor ‒ thus the entire world of the Greek gods ...
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Diary entry for 1913-09-25
... wrong; and I wish that it were not so … ." – Even women would conquer logic if only they, like men, had free access to all possible experiences of life. Logic is more a product of experience than one generally recognizes. It is not merely something ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-01
... , etc. For this he should at some point be taught a lesson, to punish him for an attitude that is certainly not free of arrogance. Mittelmann at the coffee house; he recounts an anecdote from Curtius's memoirs, which ought to find a place in Op. 110. In ...
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Diary entry for 1914-03-09
... ; the expression of their approval: a cigar or a cup of coffee should be sufficient reward for the artist's accomplishments, which they prefer to construe as a gift of nature, so that they can free themselves from any further obligation to such a person ...
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Diary entry for 1914-05-10
... status groups or parliament were always there to remind him of his responsibility and to set limits on his despotism. The modern press, however, free of all legal fetters, especially in foreign matters, is a tyrant without limits and without ...
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Diary entry for 1914-08-25
... presents his enablement card from the Red Cross, which permits him to use the streetcar network free of charge, and plunges us into making a payment that he had recommended avoiding. As if by chance, Gärtner sneaks into the Café Monarch. (With similar ...
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Diary entry for 1914-09-19
... . The patriotism of the doctors seems to consist entirely of keeping the secret of their being paid to themselves and letting the others believe for as long as possible that they are carrying out their duties free of charge. ...
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Diary entry for 1914-12-11
... to explain clearly; he does not realize that behind this code-word lies an infamous design of the small and smallest people, which already actually bears the punishment within it. It would actually be necessary for someone to appear who would free the ...