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Diary entry for 1917-11-28
... merely to show how little the objections to Bruckner are simply attributable to reflection, or to an absolute standpoint. In connection with this I mention the tonic beginnings (a Symphony is not a musical Decalogue!), the all too lush steps in thirds ...
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Diary entry for 1917-12-07
... scale-step theory and suchlike! To Rothberger (postcard): about the article in Der Merker, which I recommend him to read; likewise to Mittelmann (postcard). Graf Czernin makes a second speech with even more decisive subject matter: he substantiates von ...
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Diary entry for 1918-09-10
... fetches it from the compartment; in the very instant when he indicates that he might call a cab, a poor young man offers to carry the luggage home; I entrust him with it, but only a few steps away from the railway station building he declares that he can ...
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Diary entry for 1919-04-06
... . 1,700 Americans in Karlsbad. Mass grieving at Breitwieser's burial. Arbeiter-Zeitung: "Socialization": "… every false step would be calamitous … and thus a purposeful construction will cost years." "Problems of the Social Revolution," by Dr. Adler ...
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Diary entry for 1919-04-22
... Entente has thought about it." Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung: "A Step Forward" (on the invitation to Versailles). Der Abend: "The Passage to Versailles." Barth on the dangers of a counter-revolution: "… fuzzy thinking." France and socialist rebuilding. Recent ...
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Diary entry for 1919-08-09
... clearly see the peak giving rise to the young Enns and all the other mountains offering support like godparents as it takes its first steps; but experience warns against the illusion of such optical distances and we return home after having had just a ...
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Diary entry for 1919-08-30
... brings six cans of condensed milk, the cost of which he subtracts from the piano tuner's fee; he implies in passing what steps he took to fraudulently obtain the approval, which is for us of course only of secondary interest; suffice it to say, we may ...
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Diary entry for 1923-07-31
... . Before going to sleep, a few steps in front of the house. ...
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Diary entry for 1924-12-20
... ! Purchases, on which I accompany Lie-Liechen. After dinner, first steps on the Sonata in C# minor, then dictation for the "Miscellanea," theoretical notes and diary. ...
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Diary entry for 1925-10-10
... route to Schuster via Altmann etc. – I also communicate the situation regarding the Yearbook and complain about receiving no proofs to correct. After teatime: I pay 12.46 shillings (accident insurance) and mail the letters. A few steps in the park ...