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Searched for piano in Diaries (682 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1929-08-05

    ... get very wet! Afternoon snack at home, then at the piano. I play for Oppel: a polonaise by Chopin, Schubert's German Dances. Oppel plays intermezzos by Brahms – without any sense of pianistic style, even without an understanding of the music – puzzling ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-09-13

    ... whether he could have it in Galtür. Radio: Schubert, Symphony No. 7; Schumann, Op. 92, heard for the first time, with Dr. Felix Rosenthal at the piano. ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-10-19

    ... that the Suite in B minor, which was announced, ended in D major, though it was advertised as a Suite in B minor; Piano Concerto in E by Beethoven, played by Wührer in the usual way. ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-02-22

    ... (express letter): I decline to work through the Missa on the basis of the piano reduction; at the very least the score must form the basis. In spite of this, I make the attempt to search for lines in the score. It pleases me to see that my improvisation ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-05-09

    ... , however, which would be the duty of my pupils, has never occurred in my circle. Hoboken sees music by Dr. Gerstberger lying on the piano; he inquires about the author, and I tell him: "This is the musician from Berlin whom Einstein suggested should come to ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-06-13

    ... -Liechen): thanks for the things sent. Radio, 8 o'clock, Schmidt and Schiffmann play Reger's Op. 86 and three pieces by Debussy for two pianos. Schmidt ought actually to have been punished for this! ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-09-29

    ... (female) piano teacher. To Mrs Rothberger (letter): Lie-Liechen recommends Miss Kahn. To Miss Kahn (postcard): I hold out the prospect of teaching the Rothberger children. To Türtscher (letter): for honey, 35 shillings. Georg visits me! He just learned ...

  • Diary entry for 1931-05-08

    ... Fotograf holt sich den Rest: S. 22.40. An der Haydn Sonate Esdur, Of the two late Haydn piano sonatas in E flat major (Hob. XVI:49 and XVI:52), Schenker is probably referring to No. 49, of which he was to publish a voice-leading graph of part of the first ...

  • Diary entry for 1931-08-08

    ... opposite direction: something on the fugue, then at the piano (only ¼ hour): he plays Corelli to me, I play Joseph Strauß’s Lob der Frauen to him. 2:30 to 4: the Fugue in F minor finally solved and finished. At 4 o’clock (Lie-Liechen is still asleep!) on ...

  • Diary entry for 1932-01-18

    ... December 19, 1931, and a letter from his uncle. From Bärenreiter Verlag: scores, and announcement of a work about C.P.E. Bach by Dr. Schmidt. I excuse Brünauer from the Urlinie; encourage him to pursue figured bass and piano playing, and thus seek to find ...

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