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Searched for sonata in Diaries (579 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1926-12-19

    ... over this transcription in a way that, for certain, no conductor would do today! The little that he has accomplished is, of course, too slender when set against the serious basic mistake. Frieda called while we were out. 6:30 on the radio: sonatas for ...

  • 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 1928-01-30

    ... myself from the trap. Radio, 8 o'clock: Casado; from the works on the program, a sonata by Locatelli stands out, and a thoroughly beautiful Pastorale by Couperin; the Chopin Nocturne in E he plays significantly better than Burmester, yet still annoyingly ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-07-21

    ... is restricted only to the improvised fantasy. Even a sonata movement, as indeed all composition, is based on true improvisation. Back, then, to diminution as the best means of improvisation. I remind him of J. S. Bach's improvisations, published in ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-09-20

    ... distinguished clearly between long and short grace-notes in the autograph manuscript of the Sonata in E, in London. To Frieda (postcard): Lie-Liechen thanks her for her birthday greetings. From Landau (postcard): he suggests Monday at 4:30. To Landau (postcard ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-11-10

    ... decided to give a lecture at the Schubert Conference about the lengths in two sonatas by Schubert. I am content for him to talk; Lie-Liechen even turns on the loudspeaker, so that I was spared an extreme effort. ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-11-30

    ... for the Südmark paid. 11:15 to 11:45, dictation on performance, and on the "Eroica" essay. At 5:30, Hoboken and Vrieslander: they bring the book by Költzsch (belonging to Deutsch); we speak about the performance of Sonata in B major, about the lack of ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-08-11

    ... if I am freed of everything that had hitherto cast shadows: the Hoboken–Vrieslander affair has been wrapped up with the letters to Hoboken and Deutsch, the package with the sonatas has been answered, Oppel has also left, further visits are hardly to ...

  • Diary entry for 1931-08-21

    ... 21. Schnee an den Hängen bis tief ins Tal herab, scharfer kalter Wind, früh am Morgen ein paar Sonnenstrahlen. Erste Gruppe Erste Gruppe: a play on the term used for the first theme (or group of themes) in a sonata form: Schenker has written the ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-09-23

    ... occasion, M. continually butts in with some such observation that is meant to show his awareness of this, but which compromises him most severely. Thus, for example, he insists that all original editions are at hand, except that of the Sonata in F sharp ...

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