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Diary entry for 1912-10-03
... sehen können, oder sollte es wenigstens können. October 3. At a performance of Nestroy: the satire of its time – but to provide the satire for all times is an insoluble problem. Questions of the day vanish with the day itself; and with them fall the ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-19
... human pretension is unable to come to a halt, and all thoughts and aspirations are only directed at perpetrating malice upon, or out-performing one's fellow men. And how little propriety and taste can be seen in accelerating the tempo even in the Vienna ...
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Diary entry for 1913-11-19
... , where one had previously waited until at least the 60th . This practice has caught on, and now all of these rogues scribble whenever a 50th birthday is in the air. This process reminds me of the fashion for performing from memory – or even conducting ...
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Diary entry for 1914-06-26
... senior appears, in order to find out from me whether Felix will be able to perform in public again next year. I confirm this but alert him to the dangers that could arise for him, in connection with me as a teacher in Vienna. ...
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Diary entry for 1914-07-15
... than such weather usually lasts. After it had passed, however, and all anxiety had disappeared from the faces of the guests and the damage to objects had been put right by the hotel staff, I returned to the piano and resumed my performances. We all had ...
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Diary entry for 1914-10-12
... performed in the great hall of the Musikverein on November 18, 1914. Franz Schalk conducted the choral society of the Society of Friends of Music and the Vienna Tonkünstler orchestra. This was the first of four official concerts given by the Society in the ...
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Diary entry for 1914-11-12
... Podhajce, who asks me to liberate him from the military dungeon. He bases his request on the service that he performed for me in the past, by swearing an oath on behalf of my sister when she needed the marriage documents. ...
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Diary entry for 1914-11-30
... femininity which is characteristic of northern Germany, showing a complete lack of charm. The couple had – as the dream went – performed some sort of services for Brahms in his youth; and Brahms was in the favorable position of being able to refer to it, as ...
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Diary entry for 1915-01-07
... performance at the Court Opera on January 20, 1915. in der Oper zu folgen. Das Zinsengehirn übersieht freilich, daß wir dann noch immer mehr an baarem Gelde draufzuzahlen hätten, als wir durch die 2 Billets ersparen würden. Zu Abend essen mit ihr, den Abend ...
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Diary entry for 1918-07-09
... news of Lie-Liechen's shoes. For afternoon tea we go to Mrs. Bednař's once more and with her to the cobbler's, where Lie-Liechen orders a new pair of shoes and presses for the repairs to her other shoes. Lie-Liechen performs the operation on the ...