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Searched for improvised in Diaries (63 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1916-03-21

    ... regarding the 250 marks. To Rothberger's, in order to hasten the alterations to the suit. To the Archive, where I return the original edition of the score of the Eroica. Counterpoint 2 begun in earnest. In my dream, I hear Lie-Liechen improvising in a ...

  • Diary entry for 1918-08-17

    ... regarding the ration cards. In the afternoon there is an organ concert in the church: just as elsewhere in the provinces, we find a person foisting himself upon us with his improvisations or compositions, namely the priest, who is neither in possession of ...

  • Diary entry for 1923-12-20

    ... dares to admit that he lost the tempo of the Ninth in this case, that he is improvising more these days in general, rather than introducing a predetermined tempo! I see through the pretence: he apparently wants to win an excuse in case a critique dares ...

  • Diary entry for 1924-01-30

    ... integrity of their creative production, but their voice-leading is flawed, obviously due to a lack of improvisational ability, that which in my view derives from a misunderstanding of thoroughbass and of harmonic theory. Bring up Oppel's Op. 26 No. 1 and a ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-08-15

    ... fasse mich kurz u. ersuche also, die U.-E. an eine neue Auflage der Beethoven-Sonaten-Ausgabe zu erinnern u. an die schuldige Zahlung! An Mittelmann (K.): drei Schnadahüpfel, Schnadahüpfel: one-stanza, antiphonally performed, epigrammatic improvised ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-08-30

    ... case everywhere else, so to in Salzburg the art of performance has, understandably, remained unknown. Then the cathedral organist Messner broke into an improvisation on the theme of Mozart's Sonata in A major. Even the way in which he disposed of the ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-09-06

    ... .90 shillings). At the church of St Peter, we went on a guided tour. During the tour, a young cleric improvises on the organ and noticeably upsets the group. The lay brother asks him twice to interrupt his playing, but the player will not be disturbed in his ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-09-01

    ... ." From 4:45 to 6:30, in soothingly warm and beautiful sunshine, an improvised walk passing by the meadows by the Villa Gomperz in the direction of the houses of Nasserein, which lie higher up. From there, now further again, through fields and meadows ...

  • Diary entry for 1911-09-10

    ... improvised account of his travels verily on demand to people who were to him total strangers, and in the face of the most beautiful and sublime sights in Nature could not raise his enthusiasm beyond the words "I enjoy it", which seemed almost to slip out of ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-03-11

    ... expellas furca. "You cannot expel Nature with a pitchfork." A paraphrase of Horace (Epistles, book I, no. 10, line 24), which also appears near the beginning of the first essay in The Masterwork in Music, vol. 2 (The Art of Improvisation). Eitelkeit bildet ...

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