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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
... our visit. Hoboken inquires about my decision. To Dr. Baumgarten (letter): we invite him for Wednesday evening. Radio: Strauß – Steiner; four songs by Strauß – two of these are of a quality that is generally not found today; by Kauder: String Quartet ...
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Diary entry for 1927-03-27
... Kahn (postcard): thanks for the Spängler. After teatime, a walk in the rain: a Prinz-Eugen stroll. We catch the last movement of Beethoven's String Quartet in B (Sedlak-Winkler). ...
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Diary entry for 1927-12-06
... photographed: Mendelssohn's Songs without Words, Brahms's String Quartet in B major, and other items, about sixteen pieces; he begins the study of thoroughbass; he finds Korngold's notice petty; he will spend the Christmas holidays in Andermatt and invite ...
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Diary entry for 1928-01-31
... presented. Unpublished pieces, too, were performed. I was captivated most by the Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, accompanied by the lower string instruments. – At the end, we were linked to a celebration by the Male Choral Society, from Schubert ...
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Diary entry for 1928-08-20
... Hölderlin drafts and sketches, and with Haydn string quartets; he has also put the letters from me in order and hopes that he might be able to annotate them. From this I deduce that he has found no encouragement from Hoboken for the monograph about me and ...
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Diary entry for 1928-11-24
... : Furtwängler dirigirt ein Schubert Konzert der Philharmoniker: Ouvertüre zu Rosamunde u. „Fünf Menuette mit sechs Trios“. D. 89 (1813), originally written for string quartet. In manchem dieser kleinen Stücke ist F. ganz ausgezeichnet. Zuletzt die große Sinfonie ...
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Diary entry for 1930-11-20
... -Szanto-Nummer. A controversy between Alexander Berrsche und Jani Szántó, concerning a passage from the Scherzo of Bruckner's String Quintet, was carried out over several issues of the Münchener Zeitung: Nos. 300/301 (Oct 30 and Nov 1, 1930), p. 2; No. 305 (Nov 6 ...
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Diary entry for 1936-06-04
... come “after lunch” – it is 4 o’clock in the afternoon! At 5 o’clock I go on my own to the café where we were to meet – like our Graben Café, with string-instrument ensemble, except without the Viennese charm! Soon Mr. Götz and many of his acquaintances ...