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  • Diary entry for 1927-01-31

    ... pianist is immature also from a technical point of view! Beethoven: String Quintet in C major – the finale played by v. Berg with elegance and daring simultaneously; the limit of this artist seems to be the performance of Adagio movements. ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-04-28

    ... home on Sunday. We try to play the first movement of the Brahms Sonata, but our cello is not up to the task; in Georg's presence, the Cranach Bible arrives To Rothberger (express postcard): we are free this Sunday. Shopping. From the publisher, the ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-12-04

    ... Buxbaum Quartet and, indeed, the String Quartet in A major by Schmidt and Beethoven's Op. 18, No. 2. Insofar as the transmission permits a judgement, I would regard the last movement in the quartet by Schmidt as the most successful; in any event, the ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-07-21

    ... is restricted only to the improvised fantasy. Even a sonata movement, as indeed all composition, is based on true improvisation. Back, then, to diminution as the best means of improvisation. I remind him of J. S. Bach's improvisations, published in ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-11-05

    ... heard him for the first time play insecurely, hitting the wrong notes, playing broken chords so badly; the performance of the Prelude in D major was unbearable, as was the first movement of Op. 106. At dinner I discussed with Lie-Liechen the question ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-04-10

    ... movements of the revised copy of the "Eroica" essay home with me; at 11:30 with Haas, who tells me the story of the F minor Mass by Bruckner, how it the autograph manuscript came into the hands of one of Oberleithner's lovers, how she offered it for sale to ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-10-29

    ... ; van den Berg plays Mozart's Concerto in G major, K. 216, in his incomparable way, I would dearly like to know who wrote the attractive cadenza to the first movement; a closing chorus of Die Weltfeier by Weigl exhibited the usual technique of climaxing ...

  • Diary entry for 1931-08-07

    ... preserved in the Schenker Scrapbook (OC 2) on page 84. An der Fmoll-Fuge. In the context of the next five days of diary entries, this is probably the Fugue (second movement) from Handel’s Suite in F minor (HWV 433) from the collection of eight suites for ...

  • Diary entry for 1934-09-06

    ... movement. Lie-Liechen works for a very long time, and has a bath, even until late at night. ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-11-21

    ... saccharine cantilena or witticism, and thus dissipating into trivialities and pettiness, he is lacking in concept, such as the form of the overture in general. The rendering of the Fifth beneath contempt: the first movement too slow, not sufficiently gripping ...

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