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Diary entry for 1923-08-17
... part, find fault with the Prussians: their sense of self, their unaffected nature greatly insulted him, such that he found every other nation more pleasant. I comment that he does not understand me at all! 11:15–12:00 dictated the reworking of the ...
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Diary entry for 1923-09-17
... improvements to the sonata announcement, and third, a record of the printing errors in the first movement of the Fifth Symphony for the fifth issue; receive the volume III of the Beethoven sonatas, part of the manuscripts of Tonwille and the proofs of Op. 90 ...
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Diary entry for 1923-10-26
... instructive part about it is that the "smart" business people who have joined forces in the Society for Music do not even have the talent to keep the orchestra out of debt, but that a musician can accomplish the task brilliantly! To the Allgemeine Musikzeitung ...
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Diary entry for 1924-01-30
... wishes to use "a cheap train." He spends part of the lesson inquiring about the best Schumann and Chopin editions, which he would certainly ultimately want to own himself! Swinishness! Miss Elias pays 900 Czechoslovakian Kronen, these days that is half ...
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Diary entry for 1924-02-01
... my work. In particular I fear there is a link to the delay in the page make-up. I resolve for safety's sake to speak to Detoni in the afternoon, at least to determine the facts of the case, and for my part to have done what is necessary to avoid ...
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Diary entry for 1924-05-07
... sure touch, more securely than Furtwängler. Although the tempo in the first movement of the symphony good, it is not free enough in the second and third themes – all in all, leaves something to be desired. The second movement very good in the first part ...
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Diary entry for 1924-10-26
... den Rf. verloren. Den ganzen Tag zuhause. 26 Sunday, nice. To Floriz (letterOJ 6/7, [10]): approve of Altmann's proposal and recommend securing the confirmation on the part of the professors; I will wait for word from him in order to cancel on the ...
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Diary entry for 1925-08-15
... schwerer Krankheit. Von Rothberger (Br.): allerhand Dummheiten. Ich lese: „Das verlorene Lachen“, Das verlorene Lachen (The Lost Laugh): novella from the two-part novella cycle Die Leute von Seldwyla by Gottfried Keller. Lie-Liechen „Ursula“. Ursula ...
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Diary entry for 1926-11-14
... enjoys in these circles, his judgment was definitive. Presumably Heuberger set many things straight with regard to Mandyczewski, who was able to play the part of the friend of all friends of Brahms. In addition: Rothberger, who made a plaquette not only ...
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Diary entry for 1927-07-11
... educating the folk of Galtür, even in the matter of reading a newspaper. We are relieved of what was, at least, a considerable burden; for we thought of this and that person all too caringly – and for their part they are relieved of something to which they ...