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Diary entry for 1916-06-28
... health. Flowers delivered to Gärtner. Money and umbrella received from Brünauer. In the Peters Yearbook for 1914–15 I find borrowings of my editions of Beethoven sonatas. At the same time, the following curiosity: Schoenberg continues to figure in 1914 ...
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Diary entry for 1918-12-30
... 30. XII. 18 Marx-Katzenjammer. Der Reiche: Weisse u. Behrends: Possibly Professor Franz Behrends (?1863–1923), clarinettist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. (Weisse wrote a clarinet sonata in 1921.) Weisse verspätet sich u. trifft B. nicht mehr ...
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Diary entry for 1919-08-29
... him; in particular, he very much wishes to become acquainted with the epilogue right away, which fails quite simply because I did not bring it along. Even before lunch at the piano a little, Mozart's Sonata in A major and others, after lunch I read ...
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Diary entry for 1928-11-17
... she recalled to me the great world, which takes the greatest delight in the likes of her, although she apparently aspires to higher things. Shopping, then a short walk. Radio, at 7 o'clock: Wang and Winkler: Schubert's Sonata for Arpeggione, and ...
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Diary entry for 1928-11-28
... Vortrag des 1. Gedankens am Klavier. From the information contained in this sentence (which is confirmed in the diary entry for November 30), one may deduce that the piece in question was the Sonata in B major, D. 960. Dann erschien Vr. wieder u. erzählte ...
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Diary entry for 1912-09-17
... gladly point the people to the escapism of religion, instead of making space for knowledge and in so doing soothing life’s struggle. Sonata – the actual drama of the Germans! From an earlier draft of a planned text "On Morality." + Human sympathy likewise ...
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Diary entry for 1912-12-18
... 16. Erster Satz zum zweitenmal zuende! Possibly a draft of the text concerning the first movement of Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 109, for the new Erläuterungsausgabe. Schnell giengs aus dem Paradies, da die beiden, Adam u. Eva davon gejagt wurden ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-22
... shorter a thorough study lasts than one that proceeds in error. I calculate: the foundations of the Sonata in A flat major require 3½ months, that is, approximately 15 lessons on my part; whereas a virtuoso, even one of the highest rank, must study the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-13
... fault lies with – Mendelssohn. – Dvořák's Fifth Symphony ("from the New World"): misuse of sonata form for the purposes of a potpourri; at best a rhapsody would have been appropriate. The dramatic accents of the symphony were transferred artificially ...