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Diary entry for 1913-03-07
... speak, get beyond the level of a draft; and if he often needed a great deal of time to say what he wanted to say about music with clarity, one should not overlook that he was working in the field of spoken language, with which he was less at home than ...
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Diary entry for 1914-04-06
... orchestra of the Vienna Tonkünstler and the chorus of the Society of the Friends of Music. The principal soloists were Gertrude Foerstel, Ilona Durigo, August Globerger and Johannes Messchaert; the singers Stephan Pollmann and Ludwig Hauswirth took part, as ...
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Diary entry for 1914-06-01
... Jahren aber auf den Specht, der ein noch kleineres Tier als der Hund ist. This play on words almost certainly refers to the Viennese music critic Richard Specht. Alpheus schlägt im „Morgen“ vor, Rotschild möge die Gärten auf der hohen Warte dem Volk um ...
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Diary entry for 1915-07-15
... strive for synthesis almost as an organic function, like the function of sight. Replies from Rothberger and Floriz. Towards evening, rain. In the hotel, a professor from Braunschweig appears who, to our astonishment, shows some orientation in musical ...
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Diary entry for 1915-12-01
... of music-making. Bach's musical world resembled more a sandy desert, in which small oases were magically summoned from time to time, by the good instincts of Miss Förstel, the Evangelist Walter, and occasionally a woodwind player. A complete lack of ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-03
... blue sky in all its magnificence. Letter-cardOJ 14/23, [18] from Seligmann, in which he replies to my letterWSLB I.N.95654 and the sending of Op. 110 and Op. 111 (he has not received Op. 109). In the few lines that he writes, he gratefully salutes music ...
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Diary entry for 1917-06-04
... Vorräte gestohlen? In der Länderbank Akkreditiv bestätigt gefunden u. Stichwort für eventuelles Telegramm vereinbart. Im Archiv der Gesellschaft vergeblich nach Krüger u. Forster Probably the musicologist Eduard Krüger (1807–1885) and the music editor and ...
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Diary entry for 1919-03-30
... ): thanks for the score and the postcard; at first glance, the latter indicates an appreciation for cultivated music, promise to want to return to it later when the situation has improved; finally, tell him about my work. To Dahms (postcard): nerves are ...
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Diary entry for 1923-10-20
... results from the pharmacy and ask on which Tuesday or Friday it would be possible for me to visit. After teatime, Lie-Liechen and I to UE with manuscript and letter; while walking there, we run into a parade of Social Democrats with music and functionaries ...
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Diary entry for 1924-08-17
... Sunday. - The sun is gloomy at first, then full! We accompany the Vrieslanders as far as Valsur, they continue on to Ischgl to the Hobokens; home at 11:30. At 2:00, the music band from Ischgl marches in; a glorious sight: two women suttlers with a small ...