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Searched for strings in Diaries (132 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1926-02-15

    ... : Brahms's G-major Quintet, Mozart's Divertimento for string trio, and Schubert's String Quintet. The Spieglers invite us. Weisse and his wife seen. Weisse agrees to write to me further about the committee. After the concert, we get into a gray automobile ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-03-27

    ... Passion, and confuses aria and recitative with chorale. It was a serious mistake, too, for Klenau to involve the strings as the "shining wreath around the head of Christ" in the chaos of the dynamics – this was the first time I heard this; they the strings ...

  • Diary entry for 1906-12-02

    ... strings(!), in contrast, e.g., to the sonority of a flute with bassoon, etc.!) March-like, thus "Schubertian," in all movements! The last movement decidedly the most successful and satisfying. (But not a trace anywhere of Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven; all ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-01-21

    ... zur Lüge bekennen oder zum Bedürfnis. Nur das eine darf dürfte man ihnen nicht lassen, das Spiel auf beiden Seiten In the German text, there is an "a?" above the "e" in "Seiten." Schenker is playing on the words "Seite" (side) and "Saite" (string ...

  • Diary entry for 1918-08-24

    ... , so to speak, devoid of any liberating poetic qualities. After a while the narrator's perpetual flirtation with himself becomes unbearable. Clearly the Russian primitive way of stringing things out, also the crassest superstition, described down to the ...

  • Diary entry for 1923-11-13

    ... via the Postal Savings Bank= OC 52/893, 2,000 Kronen charge. From Halm (letter= OC 12/7-9): has sent a string quartet through a teacher leaving Wickersdorf. Status of his compositions and his relationships to publishers. Guesses that his compositions ...

  • Diary entry for 1924-06-17

    ... thanks me for teaching; wishes to come on Saturday with his wife, to make farewells. To Rothberger (express postcard): ask him to come on Tuesday of next week instead of this Thursday; I turn down the string quartet. To Cube (express postcard): please do ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-04-14

    ... treatment of octave register, which covers the coming and going, in Brahms's Quintet in G major, in Beethoven's string quartets, etc. After lunch in nice weather in the Botanical Garden, I polish, Lie-Liechen reads. Polishing complete, utterly tired out. ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-12-19

    ... String Quartet in A major, Op. 3, was published in 1894. Schubert Gdur. Berg vorzüglich! Eine Vertiefung vorausgestzt, wäre er befähigt, Joachims Erbe zu verwalten! Rietsch besser als man erwarten mochte. Der Rhythmus im 1. Satz in der Hauptsache unklar ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-10-25

    ... Buxbaum concert: a string quartet by Stekel; even if it is not atonal, it is nonetheless the usual non-organic production, which admits any length, and any tangle of motives, quartet-like and operatic alike! Beethoven's Op. 97 with Eisenberger at the piano ...

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