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Diary entry for 1911-08-26
... tourist industry is bound up ‒ exert themselves in their own way zealously to rectify any damage, then on the other hand not enough attention is paid to the sluggish way in which they take note of such an eventuality (or any eventualities whatsoever ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-09
... suddenly made with respect to the difference between the major and minor seventh. The major seventh strives upwards, as a "leading note"; only the lowering of this tone (that is, the minor seventh) overcomes this tendency in favor of the descending ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-25
... with enclosures: Schoenberg's remarks about repeats. In Breitkopf & Härtel's Communications of October this year, I find Vrieslander's book on Mayer announced – and in this connection an autobiographical note that does not say that I was his teacher ...
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Diary entry for 1914-05-06
... . Agreement on his part to hasten the remaining proof corrections. Miss Elias notes that she unfortunately does not have enough space to house the collected edition of Bach's works in her rooms; she must put the volumes in the attic. This was her response to ...
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Diary entry for 1914-07-03
... with unfolding of dreams, however, library books have become piano keys; and so I play on the books as if they were keys. And lo: when I play the 32nd notes in the modulatory passage, I observe that the instrument is seriously out of tune; I look at the ...
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Diary entry for 1914-07-16
... me of all people (over lunch) about Bülow with a reverence that seems to lie deeply within him, and of which nothing – absolutely nothing – was to be noted about what he has read in my writings about Bülow's transgressions, in spite of his utter ...
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Diary entry for 1914-08-17
... leaving these travelers uninhibited. But now just imagine how much is involved in seeing properly, and reporting what one has seen, and how little it involves in being a businessman or traveler. It is particularly painful to note that the Poles and ...
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Diary entry for 1914-10-16
... in Entstehung u. Wirkung, Probably the first movement of the Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1, in which the triplet sixteenth-note figure from the main theme, absent throughout the development, becomes the basis of a sequential passage leading to ...
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Diary entry for 1914-12-03
... servant standing in front of my house. I give him a telegram and a letter to my sister. After 7 o'clock, the two of us went out to Schönbrunn where, it may be noted in passing, we actually heard the little boy babble and speak for the first time. When I ...
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Diary entry for 1915-08-22
... seiner Rechtfertigung einige materielle Daten seines nur allzu begrenzten knappen Einkommens zum Besten gab. Endlich telegraphische Antwort von Floriz, die beruhigend wirkt. Auch die 2. politische Note wird fertig u. Lie-Liechen macht sich an die Arbeit ...