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Diary entry for 1925-11-11
... Registerwechsel gleichsam von Ton zu Ton, das Cembalo legt ein Register für lange Zeit fest. "das Cembalo legt ein Register für lange Zeit fest": the word “Zeit” here suggests not time but musical interval: one can imagine Schenker playing a scale on the ...
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Diary entry for 1927-09-03
... aloofness from the family, not from his lacking of a sense of family belonging, but rather from a lack of ability. When he was still a student and our father was still alive, the father's warnings went unheeded. He also knew nothing about my musical pursuits ...
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Diary entry for 1928-07-25
... musical necessity! Finally, we talk about a piece by Döblin in the Frankfurter Zeitung, in which he denounces parents and teachers and uses this to make capital as an original writer! Such a betrayal of parents and teachers unmasks the viciousness of the ...
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Diary entry for 1930-01-29
... sent them to Vienna for me! In a similar way, she stood the test her whole life long with respect to me. – From Mrs. Grädener I received help in various form – perhaps the world has her to thank that I was enabled to make such a gift to the musical ...
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Diary entry for 1936-07-20
... Teatro Municipal was and remains the principal concert venue for classical music, but it doesn’t match the dimensions of either the original Salle Pleyel (1839) or the larger building that replaced it (1927 July 20 When I wrap my lovely fur collar around ...
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Diary entry for 1936-07-29
... angel, in the shape of a blue-eyed, blond German, a female pupil of this gentleman. The lady, who is collecting music that she had left behind(!), makes a skillful and most enthusiastic interpreter. The professor sums up the matter in this way: He will ...
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Diary entry for 1913-04-11
... variation in B flat major in the finale of the Ninth Symphony. How difficult indeed it is for the self-motivated reader to come to terms with the absolute in music! The change of harmony and its meaning, the character of the variation in spite of a contrary ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-22
... , counterpoint and form without getting beyond a textbook education, and without having experienced what the genius of our masters really amounts to. With me, however, you have gained insight into the deepest secrets of music; and thus something like impatience ...
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Diary entry for 1916-01-26
... masters, the activity of an unqualified conductor is surely the less significant offense. Mrs. Pairamall engages Miss Kahn in a collaboration in a chamber music evening at the home of a wealthy Turk, for a fee of 15 Kronen. I give her well-deserved slap in ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-11
... expellas furca. "You cannot expel Nature with a pitchfork." A paraphrase of Horace (Epistles, book I, no. 10, line 24), which also appears near the beginning of the first essay in The Masterwork in Music, vol. 2 (The Art of Improvisation). Eitelkeit bildet ...