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Searched for genius in Diaries (250 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1918-07-19

    ... ): reasons for the delay, thanking him especially for his concurrence regarding the necessity for a discipline vis-à-vis genius. Luther (Langewiesche) read to its conclusion. Lie-Liechen overcooks the apricots. Count Czernin makes a speech in the Herrnhaus in ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-03-16

    ... -Religion Edgar Zilsel, Die Geniereligion. Ein kritischer Versuch über das moderne Persönlichkeitsideal, mit einer historischen Begründung (The Religion of Genius: A Critical Study of the Modern Ideal of Personality; Vienna–Leipzig: Braumüller, 1918). – Zilsel ...

  • Diary entry for 1920-11-10

    ... : übergebe die Vorrede, What Schenker has been referring to as the "Vorrede" (Preface, or Foreword) is probably his Von der Sendung des deutschen Genies (The Mission of German Genius), in: Der Tonwille Heft 1 (1921), pp. 3–21; Eng. transl., I, pp. 3–20. Bach ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-06-22

    ... makes the day his birthday. To be sure, I have not yet sent any prominent people into the world (that is not my calling!), but I have at least performed the service to my pupils of having showed them the art of music from the position of genius. To Mr ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-11-11

    ... . There is something distinctive about the works of a genius – on can count on them, even centuries and millennia later, to reproduce with such precision, so to speak, the musical seasons (by which I mean the change of the musical moods), as God repeats ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-10-09

    ... 9. Bedeckt, 22°. An die Hochschulblätter (Br.): das Tw-Heft folgt. On the planned reprint of The Mission of German Genius from Tonwille 1, see the English edition of Der Tonwille, vol. II (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. xii. Vom Verlag ...

  • Diary entry for 1931-09-05

    ... continues to guide the two of us to this day! Municipal subvention of a Schenker Museum?! The prospectus is beautiful, in spite of some reservations on my part; the expression "receptive genius" must be corrected. The little photograph taken in Galtür, as a ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-09-29

    ... themselves not capable of producing the new works but must leave this to the predestinated genius, why do they then not understand that, in matters of progress, they had only to follow the genius? When it is not Mr. X or Mr. Y but only Brahms who writes new ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-10-27

    ... geniuses. However little they understand their true essence, they nonetheless nourish themselves as best they can with their spiritual milk. And so I am hardly worried that they would suddenly start milking dogs, and indeed only because they despise their ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-11-27

    ... so-called "musical people" reaching as far as the likes of Bülow and d'Albert, which despite all vanity, does not measure up to the demands of a work of genius – so it is with the majority of so-called "moralists," who are supposed to love better than ...

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