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Diary entry for 1931-03-03
... Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung with the first edition of the Mozart letter! I tell him about Swieten’s unworthiness, of his behavior in the last years of Mozart’s life, without having an inkling that the letter in question confirms my viewpoint. The secret ...
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Diary entry for 1931-03-31
... , Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft 13 (May 1931), pp. 443–50; and Jonas’s review of the third Yearbook, which was published in November 1932 in the Zeitschrift für neue Musik (clipping on page 88 of the Schenker Scrapbook, OC 2). u. noch einen Aufsatz zum ...
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Diary entry for 1931-05-20
... Schönbrunn. At Frühmann’s: he pronounces us both well. Lie-Liechen has become a-arrhythmic: if I may repeat my joke – an unheard-of occurrence! Frühmann would like her to weigh 5 kg more. Weight: without waistcoat, in my Beck suit, with lightweight shoes, 83 ...
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Diary entry for 1931-11-25
... and fawningly screams the name "Ho-bo-ken" into the microphone; he deliberately divides the name into three syllables and exaggerates its seriousness as he speaks of Vienna’s profound debt to Hoboken. He does not mention me at all, neither as the ...
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Diary entry for 1932-06-19
... Waldheim (postcard): I ask them to send a copy to Deutsch. Afternoon snack on the hotel terrace. A thunderstorm like a whip – and it was over immediately!! On our terrace, continuation of the dictation. To Hoboken (postcard): concerning Jonas’s article. To ...
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Diary entry for 1932-07-07
... (postcard): we order aerated bread pellets. The summer guest in Galtür is keener, intent on accomplishing something – heroic atmosphere all things considered. Here: idleness, amusement in its dullest form may be read on everyone’s forehead ("spa town": Lie ...
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Diary entry for 1934-07-04
... , ist er den Ariern mit Locken (s. Busch! Presumably Wilhelm Busch, in whose picture-books anti-Semitic clichés are used in the portrayal of Jews. ), kurzen Hosen u. Kaftan doch willkommen! Wehe ihm aber, wenn er hier etwas brauchte für sein Leben! Junge ...
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Diary entry for 1934-10-06
... . October 6, 1934; the sky’s coat of arms: white cloud-bars in a blue field, 15°. From Wolf: his picture postcard from the summer arrives; it was addressed to Gastein. To Furtwängler (letter): with regard to my term "overaccentuated." At 10:45, Violin. From ...
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Diary entry for 1936-06-07
... scheint es nur in dem vegetarischen Restaurant zu geben. Gehen um 11h aus, Morandé 510 bis zur Post paar Schritte! Kaufe Marken, Honig (1 Dk = 1 S.) u. schöne Chrysantemen, 12 Stück $3 = 1 Stück 5 Groschen; der Mann verlangte $4, hier wird gehandelt ...
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Diary entry for 1936-07-21
... ’m setting up a business …” For Heaven’s sake! Is it not always the same? Someone else will sew the clothes; he only wants to make a living from it! I look for the Universal Edition prospectus of Schenker’s work for Buchwald, which by chance (is there such a ...