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Diary entry for 1917-11-15
... joy about his pedagogical successes, and my affirmation regarding his opinions on Nietzsche with the words: "Namely, for me there was never any doubt that Nietzsche grasped music so clumsily, only because of his complete lack of musical craft. How ...
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Diary entry for 1911-06-23
... Director Bopp. I now write to Director Hertzka, recounting the matter to him in simple terms. In so doing, I coin the ignoble title "musical Gessler" for President Wiener. ‒ How the average man conducts his "business": e.g. A flower seller accepts an order ...
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Diary entry for 1912-11-04
... Academic Society for Literature and Music in Vienna; the following day the article Vortrag Arnold Schönberg, initialed "dt" and severely critical of Schoenberg's music, was published in Der Morgen (p. 5). November 4. From the Berliner Tageblatt of November ...
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Diary entry for 1913-04-14
... his predecessors misinterpreted the classics, i.e. true music, so the so-called "moderns" believe that they must fight me despite my having basically expressed nothing about their un-music. Admittedly, they oppose the verdict I issued that the art of ...
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Diary entry for 1914-12-06
... the tragic feature: failing to recognize the advantages of a situation that one is enjoying as much as one wishes, while denying them to others. For poetry and music, it would be worth striving for the condition that one is able reach, for example, in ...
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Diary entry for 1918-07-03
... obituary for the Neue Freie Presse. In fact, the painful experience of his death is not the first occasion that sets me thinking how copious his services to music have been, naturally measured within the context of a singer's profession, but also that they ...
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Diary entry for 1924-06-13
... Allgemeine Zeitung 210,000 + 4,000 Kronen; for the first time Mozio speaks about his boy Georg, his musical talent, as well as about the talent of his daughter. To Detoni (letter): I give my imprimatur to the Urlinie and engraved examples; the contents list ...
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Diary entry for 1927-06-20
... true. Schenker appears to be describing organum from the 12th and 13th centuries, perhaps the music of Perotin, where there would have indeed been stationary tones in the lowest part, taken from plainsong melodies. Gerade das Unreife, Unzweckmäßige ...
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Diary entry for 1927-11-10
... Respighi's Pines of Rome – the most successful thing was the imitation of the birds, everything was still less music. Italian hands have rolled out an immense paid entourage of supporters, but no fascism will be of any help here: Respighi is no musician by ...
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Diary entry for 1928-09-18
... , die uns nichts Besondere sagt. Ein Schaff (Fußbad): 17 S. Rf.: Gottesmann – Schulhof spielen Beethoven op. 70 II – an allen Gliedern gefesselt! Dann von einem Franzosen ein Aetherophon Aetherophone (theremin): an electronic musical instrument designed ...