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Diary entry for 1919-01-22
... of the central powers to the League of Nations. Discontent among the neutral countries concerning the arrangement of the League of Nations (according to Reuter!). Monarchic movement in Portugal (English chess move against Bolshevism – up with kings ...
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Diary entry for 1919-11-04
... such that they would coalesce to form a four-bar period. The performance of the second theme of the first movement was random and irritating; the three-measure group in the development section was lacking. The tempo in the Andante was fluid and natural ...
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Diary entry for 1929-12-11
... Stellen Erfüllungen, die ich von niemand noch gehört habe. Cf. lessonbook 1929/30: Elias: p. 9: Dec 10: "About Gieseking's performance of the Beethoven Concerto, first movement"; Dec 14: "Continuation of Gieseking: second and third movements of the ...
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Diary entry for 1930-02-17
... , but too little to mark out a truly creative character. It is still a kind of literary-musical work of the best breeding – but innate signs of a new, exemplary nature are completely missing. The second and third movements were very beautiful, artful ...
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Diary entry for 1908-02-08
... ): Superficially powerful: (Safonov has built up Tschaikovsky's Romeo u. Juliet quite differently). Bad conducting of the bass lines, etc. ‒ Godovsky plays Tschaikovsky's Piano Concerto with licence, aiming for effect. The first movement of the concerto is a feeble ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-21
... erstenmal Ausdruck gegeben habe. In the passage in question (pp. 148–49 of the English translation), Schenker discusses the difficulties in performing the second movement, bars 93ff. (the second group), where the woodwind's melodic line is pitted against ...
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Diary entry for 1913-11-10
... diary entry indicates, this manuscript reproduces only the last movement of the sonata, which comprises a recitative, Arioso dolente, and fugue. – Ueberaus mühsam gestaltet sich die Auffindung des Reklamations-Bureaus auf dem Hauptzollamte; mehrere ...
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Diary entry for 1913-11-23
... entweder Ausgangspunkt oder Ziel von intensiven Geschäftsverbindungen werden können. November 23, 1913. The consequences of coming home too late, and of the last three evenings being lost, make an excursion inopportune. Second movement of Op. 110 dictated ...
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Diary entry for 1914-01-26
... result that, in the andante and adagio movements, the smaller note values practically take on an allegretto character. And by far the worst thing is that the singer, too, who participates in the speeding-up, ultimately ends up finding enjoyment in it and ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-10
... savior." To the Archive; revised copy of the Eroica, first movement, up to the recapitulation (see the Little Library). Strikingly careful with respect to accidentals; less good is the attention to slurs; even the staccato strokes were very dear to ...