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Diary entry for 1914-08-19
... clear again in Germany, as it did in the hour in which the essence of Germany was created. That Germany possess the truth may best be understood by the fact that only Germany can create music: that art in which betrayal and coarseness, which can surface ...
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Diary entry for 1915-01-21
... meet Sophie. Mr. Korngold promises an objective discussion (see the Neue freie Presse of January 18, 1915) on the method of performing Bach's music. He is saving this, so he says, for more peaceful times, as if (as Lie-Liechen says) the present time ...
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Diary entry for 1915-02-27
... secondary literature, thus for example the citation of all sorts of reviews from the earliest periodicals – which he verily subsumes under the rubric "music history." Probably the most amusing thing was what Adler's own assistant told Weisse, namely, that it ...
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Diary entry for 1915-03-06
... musical world – and I must first overcome this. I was also bothered by his pure desire, which I could not justify on the spot, to engage me in advance in a service that could only have brought harm to myself! An article by Robert Scheu in the Berliner ...
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Diary entry for 1915-08-06
... satisfied by having ventured the ascent in the morning. The mail brings galley proofs. The music engraving gets the authorization to be published! A captain appears in the lounge and we learn that he commands a battalion which has to undergo three weeks of ...
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Diary entry for 1915-11-11
... latest conditions. List & Franke's catalog now also includes the New Musical Theories and Fantasies. Newspapers print the speeches of two English lords in the upper chamber of Parliament, in in which is given some understanding of the situation. But ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-27
... Andante was surprisingly expressive and thus gave evidence of healthy musical aptitude; and only the complete confusion of modern pedagogy may have been the cause of her attacking the outer movements in the most painful way: a wanton pedaling that paid no ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-21
... thus likes only what is left over – beyond incomprehension. In the evening, the first copy of Op. 111 is sent to me. On account of a strange lapse on the part of the printing house, the first page of the musical text is printed on the reverse side of ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-25
... manuscript, edition of the musical text, and commentary. I stress that my unbroken work on the Ninth, Op. 109, Op. 110 and Op. 111 has made it impossible to undertake further work, on physical grounds, so that I am no longer able to continue the work under ...
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Diary entry for 1916-04-18
... not cost much, but they are wretchedly assembled and deficiently equipped, so one is basically getting less in the way of wares than what the money offered is worth. Brünauer has lost his father but comes for his lesson and plays some four-hand music ...