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Searched for slurs in Diaries (21 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1925-06-02

    ... . transl., pp. 2–19. zuendegelesen. 9½h abends die V. Sinfonie imprimiert. 2 Blue. Up at 5:45. Work on the article: "Abolish the Phrasing Slur." From Hoboken (registered letter= OJ 11/54, [2] from Paris): asks for lessons!, presents his curriculum vitae. At ...

  • Diary entry for 1923-09-10

    ... Beethoven estate – Johann Strauss!" no slurs or incorrect ones, few dynamic markings, – the last movement is missing altogether, – in short: anyone familiar with the manuscript knows that this copy cannot have been approved by Beethoven, not to mention ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-03-23

    ... two years ago; there is no longer any warmth, but rather expressive frenzy: not seldom does he divide up a group of four slurred notes into single bows, merely to be able to impart an excessive expression to each of the notes. Even the gestures of ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-11-30

    ... : the con brio in the first movement was missing; Casals divides the slurs and thus holds up the counterpoint; a double bar-line in the development section, arbitrarily placed by the printers, leads Casals to commit a violation of the sense: he begins ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-03-10

    ... savior." To the Archive; revised copy of the Eroica, first movement, up to the recapitulation (see the Little Library). Strikingly careful with respect to accidentals; less good is the attention to slurs; even the staccato strokes were very dear to ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-02-24

    ... contract and express my happiness about our association in a letter. To Vrieslander (postcard): I report on the contract and thank him for all his efforts. Dictation of the article "Abolish the Phrasing Slur" started in the evening. ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-01-06

    ... slow; also, for sake of a cheap effect, the first slur in the first violins was changed to non legato! The modulation section in the first movement and also the second subject clearly present problems, for both the conductor and the orchestra. 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 1930-03-15

    ... up with the composition. Richard Strauss's Don Juan – that, of course, is something more suited to Furtwängler: the restless hither and thither, the banal melodic construction, the long slurs, the kitsch (to use a popular word of today), the potpourri ...

  • Diary entry for 1924-08-23

    ... work; dotted slurs will be followed; André in Frankfurt has been considered with regard to prospectuses; Dr. Heinsheimer has sent the copies, asks whether the seventh issue should be sent to the same addresses. ...

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