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Diary entry for 1931-05-20
... ; requests a sample! To Lanzer (express postcard): should I pay him now? To Mrs. Pairamall (letter): she need not have any fear of the material; we are rich, the theory of performance can help someone get round the problem of not playing. A salesman from the ...
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Diary entry for 1932-08-25
... Haas in connection with the Schubert yearbook; announces a Munich music teacher, a former pupil of his who, according to her prospectus, is committed to my theory! To Vrieslander (postcard): I shall write to Haas immediately; the lady is welcome with me ...
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Diary entry for 1933-07-19
... general understanding of music (see the diary entry for June 27, 1933); this would come about only when musicians actually became acquainted and conversant with his theory. Ueber die Feier meines Geburtstages in Neu-Münster. This refers to an article by ...
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Diary entry for 1907-12-27
... , understand Brahms's rebuke, and pontificates ‒ composition theory! What a sorry fate is that of a Brahms, in the midst of so few friends and artists who understood or reached out to him! All the better to treasure the lovely pull toward Brahms and to marvel ...
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Diary entry for 1911-08-17
... 's theories, and embarking on a "renewed onslaught, with refining the counterarguments." On August 4, Schenker wrote to Moriz Violin (OJ 8/1, [7]): "I am battling on with Riemann here, since I have come to the conviction that I must pursue this meddlesome man ...
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Diary entry for 1914-12-14
... Ammenmärchen zu befreien, das seit Urzeiten lautet: Angebot u. Nachfrage. Uebrigens bilden ja die Höchstpreise schon an u. für sich einen Gegenbeweis wider die Theorie; denn wären Angebot u. Nachfrage organische Momente, so könnte man sie auch durch ...
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Diary entry for 1915-12-16
... point in my Theory of Harmony was that everything depends on the player's intuition. This, then, is what a young lady who is attracted to my theories has discerned from by books. Floriz and Vally at Lie-Liechen's; the main topic of conversation is Fanny ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-14
... des Wuchers, der durch allen Reichtum hindurchgeht, nicht plötzlich nur in Kriegszeiten zu sehen, am allerwenigstens ihn zum erstenmale sehen zu wollen. Herr Fritz Mendl preist in der Theorie den Widerstand als beförderndes u. befeuerndes Element ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-23
... footnotes in his Theory of Harmony, Schoenberg had already taken issue with one of the thoughts I had expressed in the foreword to the first volume of my Counterpoint, from which it can be deduced that he knows the work. Undoubtedly, he denied even this time ...
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Diary entry for 1918-09-19
... Sophie per Postanweisung letzte Rate für den Juden. The reference is to the man who is saying the mourning prayer or kaddish for Schenker’s deceased mother. Hans Gärtner erscheint um 11h u. bittet mich um Theorie-Unterricht; dieselbe Unverfrorenheit in ...