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Diary entry for 1912-08-02
... decline of the art of music, one need only see the heights to which less capable – or completely incapable – people are inflated (Walter in Munich; Gregor in Vienna; Bopp in Vienna, etc.). And how all the more alarming is the evidence that the people of ...
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Diary entry for 1912-08-09
... his embarrassment, simply because its origins are to be found in a false relationship to the art of music, thus in a lie. ...
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Diary entry for 1912-09-15
... ein! September 15. The Society of the Friends of Music announces the names of their lecturersOJ 11/22, [4]: a characteristically Viennese scandal, to misuse names for business purposes before a contract has been finalised. HS hand: Procession in the ...
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Diary entry for 1912-09-30
... poor music teachers to (form) an organization so that they can secure their fees for lessons cancelled by pupils. But the author misses the ultimate cause for this bad practice; it lies deeper than one is inclined to believe. The relationship of the ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-21
... population, and thus the need for larger halls (and increased ticket sales) – the string instruments drown out the woodwind melody and thus musical content is lost upon listeners. Die dort gegebene Begründung hat alle Skepsis beseitigt u. die Referenten von ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-14
... "varied reprises" to sonata form! In any event, the music itself is thoroughly instructive and full of genius; and the art of the variations that the master demonstrates proves to be a possibility that can again be achieved only by a genius. – It is a ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-25
... wretched by contrast is Austria, where party upon party destroys all possibility of forming bonds. I was immediately struck by the analogy in music which, in order to be able to achieve larger forms, conceives and makes use of tonal opposition only in the ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-30
... , which amounts to parallel octaves. In his manuscript "Octaven u. Quinten u. A.", preserved in the archive of the Society of the Friends of Music, Vienna, Brahms suggests a way of removing the resulting octaves. Schenker wrote a commentary on this ...
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Diary entry for 1914-03-23
... ask me. The wretched boy did not have the heart to use his own lesson time also for the questions relating to his doctorate in music, and was willing, despite repeated warnings on my part, to expect 1½ hours instead of an hour from me. It was pure ...
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Diary entry for 1914-05-09
... brain. – And yet again on this occasion, a commission has fixed upon a plan of a new edition, prepared by writers on music who are well and truly deceased! What a vain effort, when the all-too-mortal seek to force immorality on themselves and their ilk ...