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Diary entry for 1907-11-26
... music critic. The letter is a response to the insolent critique of Floriz's piano playing. ...
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Diary entry for 1912-09-14
... , Schalek and all such people … "travelling" in travelogues! A propos Hallis: if his communication is based on truth, that an English commission in South Africa is travelling from city to city to test the youth for musical talent and, if necessary, provide ...
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Diary entry for 1912-09-22
... auf das Eine nicht, daß auch die „verklärte Nacht“ ein schlechtes Werk, – wodurch eben jeder Widerspruch beseitigt ist. September 22. Hermann Kretzschmar, whom I exposed to the general contempt of musically knowledgeable people, finds a fervent ...
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Diary entry for 1912-10-01
... Musik has published a blatant piece of plagiarism by Wetzel, which plunders my Theory of Harmony about which he has written frequently – of course without citing it – and is quite prepared to shed crocodile tears about the decline of the art of music in ...
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Diary entry for 1912-11-03
... freie Presse) are united in emphasizing the complexity of the music in its simplicity. Thus people finally understand that there is such a thing as a complex simplicity. Surprisingly they have discovered this property for the first time in Strauss ...
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Diary entry for 1912-11-19
... presentable versions of the musical text played to the two gentlemen. Among people, true creative power is understood when a person becomes lost himself in objects, and searches after their deepest secrets; but the Creator of the universe, too, has evidently ...
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Diary entry for 1913-04-03
... introduce Lie-Lie to her family. Wedekind was discussed, poems read, and also music-making: Schubert, Fantasy and Rondo in A major. ...
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Diary entry for 1914-02-04
... plan regarding chamber music: she thinks she can, as it were, knock out a trio behind my back!" ("Haydn Trio Gd; sonderbar Plan bezüglich der Kammermusik: glaubt gleichsam hinter meinem Rücken ein Trio herausschlagen zu können!"). The work in question ...
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Diary entry for 1914-10-09
... 9. An die Steuerbehörde recomm. Schreiben mit der Ankündigung von Verlusten. Brief an Direktor Hora, Possibly Julius Hora, retired Chief Inspector of the royal-imperial Northern Railway. Hora was also a member of the Society of the Friends of Music ...
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Diary entry for 1915-05-12
... urgent need to refer in a "foot(step)note" to the improper practice of music historians! ...