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• Diary entry for 1913-10-10

  ... gräßlichen Schicksals, nicht doch besser täten, ihre Arbeit nun auch mit Liebe zu verrichten, als ohne diese! October 10, 1913 "… for goodness has just as many reliable techniques, subterfuges, devious paths, and ingenious tricks with which to assert itself ...

• Diary entry for 1914-08-01

  ... matters, which greatly whip up my feelings, so that I actually deprive myself of the enjoyment of my usual technique of starting a discussion. Postcard to Miss Kahn. Letter to Steinitz requesting him to inquire whether Erich has gone to the battlefield ...

• Diary entry for 1916-03-07

  ... that in order to realize one's own technique, one must approach the masters in an entirely different and deeper way than has hitherto been done. Extract from my letter: "A piece must indeed work; and if certain elements are required for this, then one ...

• Diary entry for 1916-11-05

  ... detail, the first and second parts, the course of her children's lives, and even that of various female personages annexed by them, also something about her libel action, her shopping technique, and so on. The best thing was that we were able to secure a ...

• Diary entry for 1918-06-27

  ... an actual history of compositional technique. The student conducts best who learns direct from the author – the necessary stuff can only be discovered from the author himself, and unfortunately not from any textbook. Lie-Liechen pickles 60 and 39 eggs ...

• Diary entry for 1924-03-22

  ... and thankfully. The pieces have Brahms's good technique in mind, for it was he who first invented them. The first three poems (Goethe) are too demure, too didactic, a lyrical punch line comes to the fore only in the last poem, which is also musically ...

• Diary entry for 1924-12-14

  ... opposition. As it is, the conversation centers around Brahms's loneliness, Brahms–Hanslick (whether press service?), Brahms–Wagner (why no programmatic expression from Brahms?); finally around Bruckner. A bit about composition technique – in passing also ...

• Diary entry for 1925-01-19

  ... his performance; – an English woman plays the piano in the Brahms quintet: very unmusical and lacking any technique; but she gets what she deserves. The piano was totally in the background, which was completely wrong from a musical standpoint and which ...

• Diary entry for 1928-05-28

  ... excellent. At 9:30 radio broadcast from Prague: a feeble piece by Dvořák, the Symphony in G major, made listening difficult. The technique in this piece has nothing to do with the symphonic, everything gravitates towards lyrical passages and moments that are ...

• Diary entry for 1929-10-29

  ... ; van den Berg plays Mozart's Concerto in G major, K. 216, in his incomparable way, I would dearly like to know who wrote the attractive cadenza to the first movement; a closing chorus of Die Weltfeier by Weigl exhibited the usual technique of climaxing ...

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