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Diary entry for 1926-11-08
... respects: the second work on the programme is mis-identified, the composer's name is misspelled, and the pianist is identified as a "conductor." Assuming that the composer was Brahms, then it was almost certainly his Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 ...
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Diary entry for 1926-12-06
... ): we invite her and Miss Balaban for teatime (Wednesday at 4:30). From 4:15 until 5:30, a walk and shopping: a second pointed cap for me, net curtain (material) for Lie-Liechen's room. Narcissi and mimosas bought (very pretty!), 4.50 shillings. Dr ...
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Diary entry for 1926-12-23
... without the fourth volume. Dr. Brünauer brings chocolate for us and for the maid. Miss Fanny Violin brings a small palm tree. The second consecutive day without going out. ...
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Diary entry for 1927-01-14
... Handel prints were to appear in the Meisterwerk "Miscellanea.” Nach dem Abendessen Diktat der Tagebuchrückstände. 14, fog gives way to fair weather, +5°. 10:30 with Brahms-Scarlatti, completed for the second time, finally to Cube's Urlinie. After teatime ...
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Diary entry for 1927-01-22
... the same time. From Vrieslander (letter): Has Halm been deserted? Regarding Gräser; he was against him from the outset, after reading the Bach-Jahrbuch for 1924; thanks me also for the reduced payment. Work on the second movement of the Brahms String ...
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Diary entry for 1927-02-07
... walk the two streets a second time! Radio: the Dresden String Quartet play Respighi's Quartet "in the Dorian mode" – an unworthy bluff of an incompetent! Moreover, not only the thematic material but also the tonality in the most inflexible monotony. ...
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Diary entry for 1927-02-25
... , second and third (perhaps third and fourth) movements: far removed from atonal currents, and not without skillfulness! Gál's "Variations on a Drinking Songs" are in fact not variations and, moreover, are inconsequential. ...
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Diary entry for 1927-02-26
... and shopping. To Trentini (letter): I decline. To Floriz (first postcard= OJ 8/4, [46]): I will write to Klenau immediately – (second postcard= OJ 8/4, [47]) – it later occurs to me that this action should be delayed until Easter – how shall I be able ...
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Diary entry for 1927-03-09
... make a second one. From Deutsch, an advertisement from UE in the Börsenblatt; Halm's judgement about my edition of the sonatas is given in abbreviated form, without the crux, the words "…in no other edition" are missing! Apparently, UE wished to protect ...
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Diary entry for 1927-03-13
... ; I pay for the first and second quarter of 1927 70.43 shillings, and conclude with the acknowledgement of what I owe for the current year: in terms of pupil numbers, nothing has changed. To Mozio (letter): I remind him about Goldschläger; was the last ...