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Diary entry for 1925-04-11
... I, found it difficult to have an artistic discussion with him at all. How disheartening to have to say that he nevertheless is and remains the best conductor of the day! After the meal we went into the music room, the Bruckner debate was continued ...
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Diary entry for 1925-12-06
... °. Rothberger from 12:30 to 2:20; begins the drawing, I play music to accompany. – Lie-Liechen's mouth is too pointed! – Rothberger will improve it. He explains that he has declined Cube as a teacher for his wife because he wants to spare his wife an inordinate ...
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Diary entry for 1926-01-05
... keyboard music. Not one piece can measure up to the variations of Sweelinck and Froberger played on the first evening; strangely, however, Prof. Fischer seems concerned precisely about the effect of the first evening. A variation movement with programmatic ...
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Diary entry for 1926-03-22
... brings Schoenberg's Harmonielehre and is given back Kurth and Reger's "Telemann" Variations. He complains about the change in the music business compared to what it was sixteen years earlier. As always, this young man needs a long time to understand that ...
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Diary entry for 1926-07-31
... 'clock to 11.30 in the Jamtal; Lie-Liechen picks a bouquet. At midday it finally stops raining; in the evening, a gentle glowing on the snow. From Haslinger, Fischer's little book on musical orthography. Two stories about horses: Not far from our house, a ...
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Diary entry for 1926-10-03
... another musician – in the composer's presence – "Do you not find it odd that a Jew has set a text of Martin Luther's to music – then later expressed regret that his bad joke was taken so seriously. Ohne Zweifel schwebte ihm der Gedanke vor, daß sich derlei ...
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Diary entry for 1926-10-10
... the review in the Turin music periodical is available. To Drei Masken Verlag (letter): why was their advertisement missing from the issue of Die Musik? To Vrieslander (letter, 11 pages): concerning Hoboken's method of payment, the origins of the same ...
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Diary entry for 1926-11-16
... arias suffered from a lack of attention to the dynamics and phrasing on the part of the soloists who took part. Today this is certainly an insoluble problem, as the hurriedness of the music industry makes it impossible for a conductor to arrive at an ...
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Diary entry for 1926-12-22
... pretext Dr. Salzer, who apparently wants to study the history of music on the basis of my principles; he invites himself for teatime some Sunday in the near future. Frieda, at midday, to inquire about how we are – will come tomorrow. At 6:30 van H ...
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Diary entry for 1927-01-19
... representatives. To the publisher (postcard): I request that they send the music examples at the same time as the printed text. To Hoboken (letter, to Paris): address of Dunn; I shall write to Warburg. A supplement from the DAZ as evidence of Furtwängler's change ...