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• Diary entry for 1916-09-19

  ... Eckermann motivates him to put a pencil in his hand to chat with me for a while about it. He regrets that Goethe was not better informed in musical matters, and that he neglected to write about poetry in a way that is similar to my theories in the field of ...

• Diary entry for 1916-10-20

  ... away at once. No doubt that the vanity of the so-called musical society, at a pinch, felt the need only after the first series of concerts, and not after the second; for even without reason one wanted at least to attend the first. Fashion, and the lack ...

• Diary entry for 1914-12-16

  ... ! The purpose of life ought to be recognized and admitted as an artificial one and, in this sense, perhaps comparable to the system of tonalities in music. These too have been brought into the world artificially – but have they not, despite or – perhaps ...

• Diary entry for 1915-09-29

  ... people for doing things differently, without wishing to say that one is minded to be equally dismissive of everything in the future. After Beethoven's death it was, for example, possible and permitted to dismiss Schubert's chamber music in spite of new ...

• Diary entry for 1916-07-26

  ... everything that lay there – in disarray, desolate – which he would nonetheless put into some order. He also has a "music-work", he added, and it gives him the greatest pleasure, after completing a day's work, to shut the windows and doors and amuse himself ...

• Diary entry for 1919-05-19

  ... finally able to accept it, and who did so in a way in which we have not seen since that time. Specifically on Art! A noticeable rejection of so-called modern music frequently encountered; but in accordance with world folly, one person suggests: "back to ...

• Diary entry for 1906-10-31

  ... reach 2. And just as similarly also all later overtones in their infinite succession when added together can never exceed that initial octave (the octave stands eternally as the limit of all musical events), in exactly the same way the first step by ...

• Diary entry for 1914-11-18

  ... gain access to their money-creating nerves. The Englishman does not hear Shakespeare, nor Goethe, nor music; rather he hears, sees, enjoys, and breathes only interest rates. And otherwise he must first be pricked up for any enjoyment, which is also why ...

• Diary entry for 1915-01-25

  ... ; and he will encounter a unity of the sort found in musical works – for example, Fidelio – bind the spoken to the sung word. In this way I welcome Wildgans's drama as dramatic technique – in this way, and not otherwise – as a reversion to that early ...

• Diary entry for 1916-01-09

  ... Beweis gegen sie u. gegen das System. January 9, 1916. After breakfast, a long time spent searching for bread. – Afterwards to the Court Chapel, to hear Mozart's sacred music in church, after more than 25 years. As we entered the chapel, the priest was ...

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