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Diary entry for 1919-07-27
... , finally he says "Yes, now you have the fingering" and disappears – I shoot back at him, but I can no longer find him. The passage itself is not actually difficult: music example (not by Brahms, nothing) but in my dream I struggled with it somehow; but it ...
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Diary entry for 1919-10-06
... modern music, but I intentionally skipped over it, by which I wanted to say that she has no right to ask such questions; all in all, she was quite humble. The main topic was political in nature and I presented my perspectives on the West, which were ...
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Diary entry for 1919-11-03
... Arbeiter-Symphoniekonzerten! The Arbeiter-Symphoniekonzerte were initiated in 1905 by the cultural commentator and important functionary of the worker's music movement David Joseph Bach, and have been held regularly ever since. Their primary objective was ...
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Diary entry for 1919-12-05
... appears not to be bothered at first and tinkers around in the music gaily as always in her naive, childlike manner; only after the lesson does it occur to her to ask whether one lesson would be sufficient – to which I answer that I generally only give two ...
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Diary entry for 1920-01-18
... disruptions make it my duty to help out as much as possible using them. I would also like to dedicate myself to portraying a few chapters of music history, but a prerequisite to doing that, specifically, is the proof of the unity as described above, unity in ...
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Diary entry for 1920-07-04
... former teacher, does not associate any other purpose with it than decorating the bare walls of his rooms. He himself also plays music on a totally unbearable instrument for his guests to dance to. To Vrieslander and Dahms postcards with address, to ...
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Diary entry for 1920-08-30
... conversation about music with the eldest daughter; after lunch at the piano, which turned out to be brand new and superb (Bösendorfer). After that to Hungerburg, but because of a misunderstanding back right away. Mr. Zollner has namely been confused by the two ...
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Diary entry for 1921-06-24
... Kontrapunkt he began to wonder, since he regarded me, like all other theorists, as riding my hobby horse; he could also not comprehend how it could be possible to date music only from Bach onwards, while at the same time teaching strict counterpoint etc ...
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Diary entry for 1923-10-04
... -house guest has a bouquet of carnations brought to him by a waiter – The contemporary world binds no garlands about the actor's head! A musician who used to perform under Furtwängler addresses him; it turns out that he is now playing bar music in the coffee ...
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Diary entry for 1924-03-22
... and thankfully. The pieces have Brahms's good technique in mind, for it was he who first invented them. The first three poems (Goethe) are too demure, too didactic, a lyrical punch line comes to the fore only in the last poem, which is also musically ...