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Diary entry for 1906-04-05
... . in London. April 5 ! Marriage of Figaro at the Opera under Mahler: The comic element seems to have been cut out altogether; indeed, it can almost no longer be called "the crazy day." The performance was exaggeratedly serious. √ Richard Epstein plays ...
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Diary entry for 1907-02-22
... Madrigal Union: My opinion of the pieces that have been performed, as I said have already put it in the book, remains completely valid even after these rehearsals: irrational, disorientating on the harmonic side, and because of the latter uncertainty as ...
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Diary entry for 1907-03-27
... Mittw. 27. 3. Matthäuspassion, Erste vollst. Aufführung von 5h Nchm.‒3/4 10h. unter Schalk.Schenker is referring to the open rehearsal of the work on March 27. The main performance took place at an extraordinary concert of the Gesellschaft der ...
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Diary entry for 1908-02-22
... Samstag, 22. 2. Generalprobe.Of Eugen d'Albert's music drama Tiefland, to be given its first Vienna performance at the Hofoper on February 25. See also diary for February 21, 1908. Vorherrschender Eindruck der Sicherheit in der Faktur, ein ...
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Diary entry for 1908-03-25
... until late August or early September. — Abends mit Frl. StolzThe fact that he apparently met the mezzo-soprano Margarete Bum on March 23 makes it the more likely that this was the cellist Eugenie Stolz whose performance Schenker records in his diary ...
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Diary entry for 1909-01-06
... Ser. A, a 1/ 09. 6. 1. Marteau bringt es fertig, Reger’s Violinkonzert auswendig zu spielen:Henri Marteau gave the first performance of Reger's Violin Concerto with the Vienna Konzertverein orchestra in the large hall of the Musikverein Building on ...
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Diary entry for 1909-02-09
... 9. 2. „Elias“ von MendelssohnThe third subscription concert of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, comprising a performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah, took place on February 11 in the large hall of the Musikverein Building, with the final rehearsal on ...
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Diary entry for 1915-05-08
... 8. V. 15 Karte von Mittelmann; Mitteilung aus „Kikeriki“ vom 2. Mai ad vocem „IX.“ Schönberg. Die Ankündigung and Das Ereignis, Kikeriki, No. 18, May 2, 1915, 55th year, p. 7. These are two satirical poems about the performance of Beethoven's Ninth ...
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Diary entry for 1919-05-06
... thunderstorm, 7°. From Klammerth (postcard): expects us on Monday in the coffee-house – a brilliant performance by the Austrian postal service. To Klammerth (postcard): inform him about the delayed arrival of the postcard and request him for Friday. Waited for ...
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Diary entry for 1919-10-05
... Schoppenkonzert: a concert performed mid-morning in a restaurant or as part of a tent festival while the guests eat and drink. zu hören bekommen – bei so viel Unglück ein solcher verlogener Uebermut, eine so unverschämte Selbsttäuschung! – dann zu Floriz, nehmen ...