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Searched for technique in Diaries (95 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1907-02-08

    ... 'Indy, Chanson Op. 50, very well written. Wolf-Ferrari devoid of talent, indolent, brought down by lack of technique right through to the sonorities of the "Female Choruses." Schoenberg ‒ an embarrasing fiasco on the part of the composer and his friends! Some ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-02-15

    ... technique. Letter from Dr. Türkel: he finally sends the copy of his text. Letter from Baroness Bach: she would like to come with her husband and daughter, so that I can hear the latter and "make a few suggestions and criticisms." After the coffee house, a ...

  • Diary entry for 1918-04-25

    ... . Afternoon shopping in the inner city in nice weather; symphonies nowhere to be found in the used book stores, thus we take new ones and I can only assert with genuine sorrow how the technique in four-hand arrangements has declined considerably compared to ...

  • Diary entry for 1923-07-22

    ... erlernt Lie-Liechen von Frl. Ida die Frivolitätenarbeit. "Frivolitätenarbeit" (also known as "Schiffchenarbeit"): tatting, a technique for handcrafting a particularly durable lace constructed by a series of knots and loops. Tatting can be used to make lace ...

  • Diary entry for 1908-01-15

    ... ."Eine längst ... begriffen": the meaning of this sentence is far from clear. Perhaps Schenker intended to write "nicht" after "noch": "A tried and tested technique in composition, to this day still almost entirely not understood [or adopted]." √ Busoni spielt ...

  • Diary entry for 1906-12-06

    ... -to-speak most conceivable and most beautiful tasks. Or is one to call a finger technique still great, even when it functions, and then only shoddily, in pieces of lesser spirit? Wretched performance of the Chopin Nocturne in G major (6/8). A player of such ...

  • Diary entry for 1906-12-17

    ... technique, from time to time also beautiful playing, except that he is still, so to speak, physiologically immature: puerile depiction of Rubinstein's pathos (Sonata in A minor, Op. 100), too intensely childishly lacking in subtlety, too simple, too fast ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-07-06

    ... of purpose and occasion. In addition, Reinhardt's technique seems to me to have been influential in the shaping of the scenes. Words of painful irony and bitter skepticism are forever struggling to come to the surface, as a judgment upon the ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-03-21

    ... -developed technique. At any rate, the quality of the paintings may be regarded as superior to that of present-day music; but one must not overlook the fact that painting, because of its reference to the natural world, has an incomparably easier time of it than music. ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-08-21

    ... were not familiar with the technique of first letting the wick get a bit longer. The entry visa for TyrolTyrolTyrol arrives after having made the trip to Vienna twice, dated August 9, 1919. The envelope was open, which is a lesson on how little you can ...

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