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Diary entry for 1916-12-27
... the 1915 Nobel Prize for literature for his novel Jean-Christophe (1904–12); it was awarded the following year. Schenker is not only disparaging his numerous writings on music here, but also his activities as a writer. And by saying that Rolland knew ...
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Diary entry for 1918-12-30
... the last lesson he again arrived a quarter of an hour early, with the typical excuse: "I have something to ask about the trio" – as if the trio were not also music. Journalists – workers: fists, feet. Journalists in effect the fists of the intellect ...
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Diary entry for 1927-11-28
... surpasses his rivals with his musical ideas; they are apposite, and beautiful, but just conceived at a low level. One cannot consider the whole of his creation as art, i.e. viewed from above – viewed from below, it is a mountain peak. Actually it's like this ...
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Diary entry for 1930-10-02
... in 1788, is No. 95 in Alfred Wotquenne's catalogue of Bach's music and No. 539 in Eugene Helm's. An Mozio (K. expreß): bitte um den Zinsenbetrag!! Von ½5–¼7h: van Hoboken zur Jause; unsere Besprechung erspart mir eine Konferenz mit Haas. Ich erkläre ...
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Diary entry for 1936-07-30
... for Jeanette, since her late husband was the author of the teaching materials he had been using at the David Mannes Music School and later at Columbia University. This letter does not survive. The money referred to here was probably collected in the ...
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Diary entry for 1914-09-08
... where it is directed; and strictly speaking one may also consider a piece of music by Bach or Beethoven in sonic-militaristic terms, like a truly ingenius military operation. All German masters of music likewise have "Potsdam" in their musical sounds ...
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Diary entry for 1916-11-30
... the more new, shocking things about her from Mrs. Deutsch. Thus for example she still boasts today that in a few years she will have a "musical society" in her midst, etc. I did not mince my words and spoke as disparagingly as possible about Mrs. Mendl ...
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Diary entry for 1917-04-04
... Lie-Liechen's, I meet Prof. Jakob Fischer, who torments me with his latest discovery. It concerns an appreciation of the theories of Westphal who, following Aristoxenus, believed he had rendered a service to the art of music when he applied the prosody ...
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Diary entry for 1911-08-20
... newspapers on June 3, 1911 declares his intention to deliver lectures entitled "Decline of the Art of Music," in which "works of several composers (Strauss, Reger, Debussy, etc.)" would be criticized. (The lectures were not delivered.) A swingeing attack on ...
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Diary entry for 1912-10-30
... , which at least does not recognize the difference between genius and non-genius, the famous rules in the times of mass migration were not driving forces, but were merely enigmatically driven themselves. Expressed in musical terms, today's world is lacking ...