Full text search of German original and English translation

About searching:

  • searches are case-insensitive - bakery finds bakery and Bakery
  • searches find closely related words - bakery finds bakery and bakeries
  • use quote marks to find words together - "railway station" finds just railway station while railway station finds instances of railway and station
  • add tilde (~) and number to specify desired proximity - "errors copy"~5 finds errors and copy within 5 words of each other

Searched for strings in Diaries (132 results found)

Remove filter - Category: diaries

Downloads temporarily removed for testing purposes

  • Diary entry for 1926-10-15

    ... these theories will triumph because of the truth that they bear and because they represent an apex-point in difficulty. Radio: Přihoda, playing Corelli, the "Kreutzer" Sonata, Vieuxtemps, Bach's Air on the G string and pieces by Paganini, at the end ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-01-31

    ... pianist is immature also from a technical point of view! Beethoven: String Quintet in C major – the finale played by v. Berg with elegance and daring simultaneously; the limit of this artist seems to be the performance of Adagio movements. ...

  • 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 1927-12-04

    ... Buxbaum Quartet and, indeed, the String Quartet in A major by Schmidt and Beethoven's Op. 18, No. 2. Insofar as the transmission permits a judgement, I would regard the last movement in the quartet by Schmidt as the most successful; in any event, the ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-05-28

    ... repeated now extremely loud, now extremely soft. Suck und Novak were even weaker. The conductor did a disservice by exporting these works in the first place! The warmth of the strings was agreeably conspicuous; otherwise, these poor composers do not enable ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-11-26

    ... vor lauter Freude an dem, was ich beschere. Ich machte mit Weisgärber die Quartett-Aufführung Probably Oppel's recently completed String Quartet. für Februar aus. Vrieslander plant Kurse in München oder Berlin. Dahms fehlt leider. Schließlich ist v. H ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-10-20

    ... Pucher and find pleasure in the quiet, unpretentious coffee-house, which still shows signs of having seen better days. Refreshed and satisfied, we return home at 6:30. On the radio, various things: a string quartet by Beethoven, songs by Frischenschläger ...

  • Diary entry for 1931-10-01

    ... es jetzt anders werden: die Empfänger meiner, unserer Güte erzwingen die Aenderung förmlich selbst. Nach der Jause Wege. Rf.: Rosé op. 59III. According to the radio listings in the Neue freie Presse, the Rosé Quartet played Beethoven’s String Quartet ...

  • Diary entry for 1934-10-06

    ... Weisse (letterOJ 15/16, [95]): he has spent the happiest of summers, he extols the landscape: sea, mountains, baths, and people; he has composed assiduously (a string quartet!). With regard to Jonas’s book, he misses the creative element! Now that his ...

  • Diary entry for 1906-08-15

    ... Anna (Lilli Lehmann), and Donna Elvira's E aria. The long scene-changes were annoying. The orchestral sonority was persuasively rich; especially effective were the winds with light string accompaniment. Lively evening company after the opera. Wednesday ...

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14