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Searched for piano in Diaries (682 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1934-11-21

    ... : Backhaus plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A major: he should be forbidden from using his fingers; finger castration! ...

  • Diary entry for 1908-08-08

    ... " ("dilettante piano player") underlined by Schenker in blue pencil. ‒ verwahrt sich gegen das Gerücht. in right margin, black ink: ! August 8 First dream: Brahms offers me money for future works. Second dream (dreamed as a waking continuation): I hurry along ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-04-30

    ... Geiger wie immer bedeutend überlegen; Schenker's lessonbook for 1918/19, p. 5, records: "Beethoven Sonata for Violin and Piano in C minor Op. 30, No. 2, done again; … Beethoven Sonata for Violin and Piano in C minor, first and second movements, performed ...

  • Diary entry for 1923-12-13

    ... excessively free playing freedom in the performance of the Adagio subject. I counter, sitting at the piano, but notice very quickly that he is far too ill-prepared for a dispute of this type. He talks about the whole but does not take any notice at all of ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-06-10

    ... books by Wölfflin and Fiedler, I indicate the contents of the second Yearbook. At midday, Mrs. Pairamall's locksmith competently fits a security lock: 42 shillings. At 2 o'clock, the new piano is brought (10 shillings for the movers!). Hoboken mentions ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-02-21

    ... a. Hoboken says that his wife has bought him tickets to both performances of the Missa, under Furtwängler and Klemperer; he is also going to Berlin and asks me to go through the work with me, and he already pulls the piano-vocal score out of his ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-09-14

    ... , from London, whom I had already seen at my place when he was about ten years old. He is benefitting from a scholarship in England, for the study of piano and composition at the Academy. He plays Beethoven’s Op. 53, second and third movements, somewhat ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-11-19

    ... 19. November Mit Mandyczewski bei Wittgenstein. Mehr als 3 Stunden das Autogramm Autograph manuscript of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 109, in the private collection of the Wittgenstein family. copirt u. beiden Herren interessante neu ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-10-11

    ... . meine Antwort. 11. No reply from Mrs. Pairamall. For the Little Library, Brahms's Piano Quartet in C minor. In the movie theater, The Last Days of Pompeii and a talking film seen and heard for the first time: a dancer and a virtuoso ocarina player. As ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-05-04

    ... Hirsch’schen Stiftung an, der jedoch ausbleibt, weshalb ich in die unangenehme Lage gerate, den Brief Herrn Mendl nicht beantworten zu können. May 4, 1914. Miss Elias told me about the kleptomaniacal inclination of a respected piano teacher in Vienna ...

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