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Searched for genius in Diaries (250 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1913-10-15

    ... literature, which one can hear in the side-streets of the city, have been contaminated by all the poisons of modern music: over-exaggerated chromaticism and forced polyphony! – a real travesty of the military march! The conquering of a genius is celebrated in ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-11-02

    ... am a more virtuous man, a better husband, father, and son. Naturally, this denigration of genius is based on an arbitrary supposition; but there is no other way in which the average man is able to save himself before the force of genius! Now he argues ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-12-14

    ... "varied reprises" to sonata form! In any event, the music itself is thoroughly instructive and full of genius; and the art of the variations that the master demonstrates proves to be a possibility that can again be achieved only by a genius. – It is a ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-12-28

    ... the genius; this is the usual vengeance of the receiver upon the giver! Grotesquely, however, the same humanity, after a certain amount of time has passed, shows its almost patronizing nature in researching the truth about the genius; and this is ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-08-24

    ... German soldiers have kept pace with the German geniuses much sooner than the many writers and scribes. Mr. Stahl says that German form must first be sought; from the debt that we must pay to the geniuses, now more than ever, and the fact that this payment ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-10-10

    ... ," to which I reply that it is only a shame if one is fooled by a mediocre person, never when one is left standing behind a genius whose puzzles one has honestly strived after. That is the very nature of genius, that it leaves mediocre talents behind it ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-07-18

    ... ; ein Boche Boche: derogatory, French term for a German. müsse heute arbeiten, zumal ich, der der Jugend helfen will, sie nach dem Ebenbild des Genius zu formen. Will auch Wien verlassen, die ärmste Stadt, der die undankbaren Slaven ins Gesicht gespien ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-12-15

    ... ) by way of introduction, and then reading Marpurg, but simultaneously pursuing studies on his own in the Well-tempered Clavier: here, among the geniuses, in addition to finding conventional practice, inimitable freedoms are also present, the likes of ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-09-02

    ... da muß gesagt werden, daß Salzburg im Grunde unverändert ist – bis auf den Hauch des jungen Genius, der berufen ist, sich aller Welt mitzuteilen, aus Salzburg hinausflog, – irgendwo aber in den Sphären hängenblieb. Das Mirabell-Schloß betrachtet ...

  • Diary entry for 1911-07-23

    ... the Beethoven and Bach edition and notice is given of the small essays. "In this way he, the genius, reconciles, indeed marries ‒ like love and youth ‒ the unhelpful life with the ethereal state of mind, rather as on the bank of a still body of water ...

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