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Diary entry for 1915-06-29
... is motivated to feel that he is a part of Nature; and in dark premonitions and feelings he is compelled as much as possible to get closer even to the other manifestations of Nature. How much we suffered on account of the ground that revealed such deep ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-29
... vorherige Absage die Stunden um eine gewisse Zeit abbrechen könnte. Führt sich als Schülerin von Schnabel ein u. deutet eine eventuelle Reise nach Berlin im Frühjahr als Motiv dieser Unterbrechung an. An Mittelmann (K.): bestelle ihn für Dienstag ins ...
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Diary entry for 1918-05-08
... Untersuchung wegen eines infektiösemn Charakters der Krankheit noch nicht abgeschlossen. Mittelmann kommt eigens, um mir Karpaths Pass für die Reise nach Deutschland zu zeigen, bringt bei dieser Gelegenheit eine Zigarre mit. Leider ist für uns sein Motiv ...
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Diary entry for 1919-07-18
... trials of war; I have drawn the consequences on several fronts, regret to have to cancel just now when she shows such motivation, but these Anglo-Saxon times pose an especially big threat to music. Both postcards taken down the field path to Altenmarkt ...
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Diary entry for 1924-09-17
... raises the question of the metronome marking in the Trio of the Scherzo. I have already answered this question from a motivic perspective in my book, the answer should actually preclude any new question, even if the manuscript and the first print shows a ...
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Diary entry for 1924-09-24
... the dissolution of the contract. To Klenau (letter and enclosures returned): the most important thing is to maintain the tempo in the Scherzo throughout the first section and throughout the Trio; refer him to the motivic reason described by me on p ...
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Diary entry for 1928-02-15
... , higher than Lortzing and Nicolai. And yet I must regard it as a mistake that in Act 4 an unnecessary seriousness motivated the composer to a grand declaration of love, which drives out the opera's golden quality of humour at the last moment. In ...
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Diary entry for 1929-10-29
... without internal motivation, a mechanical up-and-down without musical foundation. Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel truly inspired! The early morning spent very restlessly. ...
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Diary entry for 1932-11-18
... explained that he would summon me to Berlin – this motivated Karpath to ask Furtwängler to write a letter about me, which he would then prominently publish in the newspaper in order to enlighten the city of Vienna about me; indeed, he even asked my dear Lie ...
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Diary entry for 1936-08-01
... at the wall of a house. Naturally I want to know the reason, and I see a large black cat on a balcony. From a higher balcony, a small ape attempts to approach it. Whether it is motivated by friendly or hostile feelings cannot be determined; only the ...