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Diary entry for 1924-08-01
... the sun, Lie-Liechen at 6:30; she writes up the rest of the "Performance" section until 10:45; I dictate "Genuine and Sham Effects," an afterthought to Neumann's letter, and "One Hundred Years of the Ninth Symphony" (until 12:15). Boisterous attempt ...
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Diary entry for 1925-01-20
... performer with very low technical abilities. To Rothberger (letter): a sentence for the reverse side of the medal. A red hyacinth is starting to bloom. The last part of the Nibelungen film seen in the cinema, 4:00–5:15. We both forget our opera spectacles, I ...
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Diary entry for 1925-02-06
... Lortzing, songs by Tchaikovsky (very bad); Kolisch plays Pugnani-Kreisler – too overburdened –, Carmen Fantasy by Sarasate and Hungarian Dance in D minor by Brahms-Joachim: apparently musical, also technically proficient, but the performance of difficult ...
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Diary entry for 1925-02-16
... mechanism of assistance beneficial enough to justify the presumptuousness vis-à-vis nature. He promises to want to be of assistance to Wilhelm and gives a secretary the file, separate from the rest. Home at 1:00. Work on Op. 106: draft of a new performance ...
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Diary entry for 1925-02-21
... 52/694. Then into the Inner City and home at 6:00. I continue polishing the "Performance" section for the Largo and the Prelude. ...
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Diary entry for 1925-03-21
... intricate phrase constructions in a most natural manner without ever showing the least bit of difficulty or craftiness. The honesty of the melody appears to originate in the honesty of the artistic nature, which also corresponds to an unaffected performance ...
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Diary entry for 1925-11-02
... . Buxbaum refers to the card in which I express my agreement!! Weisse recounts that, on the occasion of a performance of a Brahms motet, has once again looked at our studies of the chorale and has now just begun to understand what I meant at the time by Bach ...
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Diary entry for 1925-11-30
... difference in the performance of the final variation, compared with Joachim, was most blatant: no difference was made between the notes that actually lead the melody and the figures that are inserted between them! Mrs. Gutherz visits us at our seats at the ...
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Diary entry for 1926-01-06
... outstanding in many respects. In an advertisement of Universal Edition in the second December issue of Die Musik it says: "the celebrated writings of Schenker." On the radio: transmission from the Konzerthaus, performance of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony and ...
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Diary entry for 1926-03-27
... with it, packed up and sent off after lunch= OC 54/73. Lie-Liechen writes out the fair copy of the section on performance for the first movement of Mozart and "Further Considerations of the Urlinie," first part. Radio: St. Matthew Passion (Klenau ...