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• Diary entry for 1924-09-26

  ... the price for the piano at 40 million and takes 20% interest; finally, he asks me whether 700,000 Kronen would be too much? Lie-Liechen makes an annoyed face and drops a few harsh words, but Kohn is unshakeable; we declare ourselves in agreement with ...

• Diary entry for 1924-10-03

  ... teatime; Professor Stern present. Lengthy conversation with the young Saphir; he tells about his a branch of the [family] piano business in Palestine, about the musical and concert life there; he hopes for an upswing but sees clearly how the English are ...

• Diary entry for 1924-11-07

  ... (express letter): I thank him after the fact for the grand piano, I congratulate the factory on their work, ask for a tuner, since the bass suffered during shipping. To Piper (postcard): thanks for No. 3. Before the meal, a half-hour walk up to the clock ...

• Diary entry for 1925-03-19

  ... pleasant balance, if completely lacking any hint of a stroke of genius, of course. Regarding the harp playing, I noticed clearly how close modern piano playing in essence comes to harp playing. Sekles: serenade for ten instruments and harp: the first ...

• Diary entry for 1925-11-30

  ... the municipal building for postal payment forms. At Buxbaum’s concert: Brahms’s A minor, Dvořák’s Quintet in A major with Szatmari at the piano; Beethoven’s Op. 135. In Brahms, the tempos too slow, especially the Andante moderato, which was actually ...

• Diary entry for 1925-12-24

  ... -Liechen is not a little frightened; Mizzi is summoned. Candles are placed on top of the piano! Hoboken arrives for his lesson (!), finds the candles "very nice" – soon the electricity is working again, at least a part of it; we work during the lesson by ...

• Diary entry for 1927-01-31

  ... the solution may turn out; I recommend that he put together a book in his mature years, for instance a "Traveller's Letters through Music." Buxbaum Quartet! Jarnach Quintet, Brahms Quartet with Weingarten at the piano: an inadequate performance! The ...

• Diary entry for 1927-02-08

  ... his idea of "Urtöne"!, and regards the slurs I use to indicate connections as analogous to a railroad shunting yard. In the evening, piano four-hands: Haydn and Schubert. Radio: 9:45 to 10:45 Beethoven, String Quartet Op. 95 and Sonata Op. 53 played by ...

• Diary entry for 1927-10-07

  ... certificate even in piano tuition. Prof. Hofmann made light of the situation, chiding him for his lack of "style"; though apparently only in order to insult me. Albersheim has still not paid – I write him a recommendation for Buxbaum with regard to a ...

• Diary entry for 1927-12-18

  ... letter to Mrs. Vrieslander, a postcard to Hugo Walter to go with the book, and a card to Miss Markus, with thanks for the little picture. Radio: 11 to 1: we catch the end of the Toccata in D minor by Bach, played by Schütz; Tschaikovsky's Piano Concerto ...

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