-
Diary entry for 1926-10-15
... Variations on "Nel cor più non mi sento," which Beethoven also used for a set of variations. In the "Kreutzer" Sonata, much that is conspicuously better than as performed by other violinists; the playing is sufficiently expressive, sometimes the portamento is ...
-
Diary entry for 1927-05-03
... not have faith in the load-bearing capacity of its slender content, and he reached for dubious material in order to win his audience. The performance was thoughtful: Waldau in the principal role, and the young Thimig as the young aristocrat, striving ...
-
Diary entry for 1927-06-20
... really was. Precisely the immature, the un-purposeful quality of that voice-leading, which led artists to create a more solidly founded one, did not emerge. The performances amounted to the creation of a mood, and from that it can be said that the pieces ...
-
Diary entry for 1927-12-18
... songs was as inappropriate as it could possibly have been, the performance still less fortunate. The singer drained "Feldeinsamkeit" from every quarter-note and eighth-note, and she did exactly the same in the other songs, where each musical phrase had ...
-
Diary entry for 1928-01-30
... in breach of Chopin's explicit performance indications, which at any rate he understands as little as any other musician. ...
-
Diary entry for 1928-10-17
... letter, which says that we shall come today at 6:30. Returning home, I find the gentleman and two tickets in the orchestra for the performance of Faust – I pay him the 33 shillings and send Dr. Halberstam a telegram that says that we shall come on Friday ...
-
Diary entry for 1928-11-05
... heard him for the first time play insecurely, hitting the wrong notes, playing broken chords so badly; the performance of the Prelude in D major was unbearable, as was the first movement of Op. 106. At dinner I discussed with Lie-Liechen the question ...
-
Diary entry for 1928-11-26
... spark them off. Even in such a case, what Berrsche expressed so eloquently proves to be true: "... they will think of you last of all" – i.e. with pure joy for that which I provide. I arranged for the performance of the quartet with Weisgärber to take ...
-
Diary entry for 1929-08-15
... , and invitation for the coming year. To Baumgarten (picture postcard): thanks for the kind thoughts; perhaps we shall perform Op. 97 some time at home? Joke about the two former guesthouses and the two former professorships. To Miss Elias (postcard ...
-
Diary entry for 1929-09-02
... -stanza, antiphonally performed epigrammatic improvised poetry, common to Alpine dwellers, for which many tunes were available: see Marko Deisinger, Heinrich Schenker und die Tiroler Volksmusik: Beobachtungen des Wiener Musiktheoretikers während seiner Sommeraufenthalte ...