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Diary entry for 1925-02-14
... variations in the spirit of the teaching Weisse received. Warburg tells Weisse that he had Korngold on a car trip; he spoke of me as a force, but added: But you see, my son has become a genius even without that. Another student of Weisse encounters a ...
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Diary entry for 1925-07-15
... Mendelssohn speaks about the work in the investigating committee. He shows a real feeling for the greatness of genius and sees Bismarck totally in a world that is appears not to be of this world. Still he finds him deserving of criticism because he wanted ...
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Diary entry for 1925-10-30
... than by himself: a thing of genius is so much more beautiful than oneself. This sorrowful promotion of his own being, which required repeated confirmation during every lesson, this misconduct of the intellect and the heart is the very thing that ...
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Diary entry for 1928-02-09
... of the finale of the Piano Quartet Op. 25, which is the proudest monument of Hungarian music, of the sort that only a genius-bestowed German can erect). At the end, there was still the Violin Concerto in D major by Paganini. Brünauer brings to his ...
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Diary entry for 1929-03-10
... if the work of a talent or genius could be developed.") Weisse says that he has worked through the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier. From this I conclude that, when working on this, he occasionally stumbled from one difficulty into another and ...
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Diary entry for 1930-09-06
... pyramids of the Egyptian kings as a travel destination!) How this enabled the brilliance of a genius like Mozart to have an economic impact! (Poor Mozart, too, underwent a crucifixion (??); he sacrificed his life for art, so that others could make money ...
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Diary entry for 1936-07-24
... talent for drawing; I speak about Roswitha Bitterlich and undertake to send the little girl one of her drawings, to give the young lady perhaps some classical lute music, and the General the first Tonwille volume with The Mission of German Genius. How ...
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Diary entry for 1911-09-12
... herein alone lies the heart of the matter, the irony of the situation ‒ such maturity has to be expected of the men themselves, who will probably continue to the very end of time, with the sole exception of the genius, taking upon themselves the bitterest ...
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Diary entry for 1914-12-16
... purpose the chair should be worshipped. Humanity wants a task to fulfill, and would prefer to be given the silliest one rather than have to ponder and reject it! Small people readily admit that it is much more difficult to keep company with a genius than ...
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Diary entry for 1915-09-29
... -raff who, in times of peace, corrected the geniuses and gave their own judgment about our opponents. Now the crawl back to the cross and allow the geniuses' judgments to stand. But surely only for the time being! For no sooner have the clouds parted that ...