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Diary entry for 1916-02-13
... performance! A baton set automatically in motion seemed simply to fling the musical substances into the air, rather as a figure in a fountain discharges water. The applause was accordingly moderate, but audience and conductor are surely of the opinion that the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-18
... their own laws. All further connections have nothing to do with the inner truth of an artwork. This applies not only to music, where this recognition is perhaps the most difficult, but also therefore most fitting, to pin down; it also applies to poetry ...
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Diary entry for 1919-02-11
... again come too late! New conditions for the ceasefire (according to Parisian newspapers!). Revolutionary movement in Rumania. From Bern! President Seitz on the Bern conference! Street processions with music – organized by the Social-Democratic Party ...
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Diary entry for 1907-09-29
... emphasis, then the artist warmly deserves the response: "What is music at all without Liszt" ‒ and that is in truth no less! ...
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Diary entry for 1908-02-09
... heiser schreien. Sunday, February 9. Hail, snow, rain, ‒ lasting around eight-and-a-half hours! What an unusual mixture of weathers in the space of one day! ‒ Baroness El. Bach appears to have caused a chill in the relationship between Music Director ...
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Diary entry for 1911-06-01
... different project." No answer. So I release the following announcement to the papers: "Dr. Heinrich Schenker will begin with a series of six to eight lectures next Fall under the collective title Decline of the Art of Music, which will demonstrate the ...
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Diary entry for 1912-10-05
... hand: "You will have no pleasure in the music for piano duet. I have bought them second-hand." (Mrs. D.) HS hand: in left margin: (Moral) Persons caught committing a disgraceful act are apt to excuse their conduct by admitting that they have committed ...
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Diary entry for 1912-11-07
... from view. The picture, moreover, applies also to modern compositions; and in the same way that the constant digressions in the conversation betray a lack of respect for the matters under discussion, so the constant changes of harmony in music ...
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Diary entry for 1912-11-27
... so-called "musical people" reaching as far as the likes of Bülow and d'Albert, which despite all vanity, does not measure up to the demands of a work of genius – so it is with the majority of so-called "moralists," who are supposed to love better than ...
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Diary entry for 1913-09-23
... thus sunk so deeply that it misuses the beautiful, most beautiful word "earn" for such a scandalous act! In the archive of the Society of the Friends of Music. Mandyczevski is present! In search of the original edition of Op. 110, I come across the ...