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Diary entry for 1927-10-18
... first lesson, Vrieslander follows. At the concert given by Rosé: Op. 18, No. 5, in A major: meaninglessly trivialized. The quartet by Weigl, a mishmash of the musical languages of Wagner, Bruckner, and Mahler and, already the result of its origins, the ...
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Diary entry for 1927-12-02
... in Leipzig asks to photograph, to save it from being completely destroyed. The radio apparatus is again in optimum tuning: String Quartet in G minor by Gliere and String Quartet in D major by Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky shows an original face, Gliere a ...
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Diary entry for 1927-12-05
... begin with c. f. and also with a study of the first subject of the Cello Sonata in A major. ...
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Diary entry for 1928-02-22
... their reputation. It proved still more difficult to establish a relationship between the players and the audience; we played Schubert and added only Mozart's Andante in G major – but we were not met with an appreciativeness commensurate with our devotion ...
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Diary entry for 1928-04-15
... went through the danger of being left hanging as a result of his "Communications" and that he would have to bear the costs of the periodical. At midday, at the Nicolai concert: Furtwängler plays the Brandenburg Concerto in D major with his usual sense ...
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Diary entry for 1928-11-14
... in the Tirolerhof; we collect the theater tickets and buy an umbrella for me (25 shillings); finally, shopping. Mozio came to our house while we were out. Kammerer tunes the piano (2 hours). Work on Chopin's Prelude in D major (Brünauer); final ...
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Diary entry for 1928-11-24
... : Furtwängler conducts the Philharmonic in a Schubert concert: Overture to Rosamunde and Five Minuets and Six Trios. In many of these short pieces, Furtwängler is quite excellent. To end with, the great Symphony in C major. He extends the character of the first ...
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Diary entry for 1929-11-24
... a response to Schoenberg, in music illustrations and text: Bach Prelude in C minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier and the so-called "Dissonant" introduction to Mozart's Quartet in C major. ...
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Diary entry for 1930-05-17
... more to the Bach Prelude in E major (discussed in Yearbook I and says, "Master, you do not know yourself how beautiful this is." He says that Jonas will be giving lectures about my theory in Preßburg during the next academic year; he accompanies us ...
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Diary entry for 1930-08-09
... him that I did not chastise the Germans sufficiently for having become adherents of Rameau! From 6 to 7 o'clock, once more out of doors. Oppel with me: he shows me his solution to the C major Prelude from Book I, which is however not correct. From ...