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Diary entry for 1912-06-30
... gewohnten Stunde erscheinen. Aufnahme eines neuen Schülers, Felix Hupka, der sich zuerst an d’Albert wendete u. erst über dessen Empfehlung zu mir kam (Theorie u. Klavierspiel). Die Situation Florizens in der Akademie wird von Tag zu Tag unhaltbarer; er ...
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Diary entry for 1917-04-04
... Lie-Liechen's, I meet Prof. Jakob Fischer, who torments me with his latest discovery. It concerns an appreciation of the theories of Westphal who, following Aristoxenus, believed he had rendered a service to the art of music when he applied the prosody ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-12
... will probably be completely finished with the English Suites!) … A woman appears: she asks for a concise theory of harmony, from which she would be able to use something for a lecture. With this question, she gets on the assistant archivist's nerves! He ...
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Diary entry for 1914-06-29
... which all men are equal, and the theories of equality of race and nation that are founded upon it. And nothing is so important for the human race as to acknowledge the differences at hand: just as there are individual persons of stronger worth, whose ...
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Diary entry for 1916-01-28
... Niederganges ihrer Moral oder ihrer Kunst ist undenkbar, obgleich ihre Physis von einem solchen Niedergang betroffen wird. Spinoza kann also niemals ein Schurke werden u. straft damit die Theorie vom Niedergang in sittlicher Beziehung Lügen. Jedenfalls begehen ...
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Diary entry for 1917-04-15
... him that I have instructed Cotta to send him my Theory of Harmony and Counterpoint. PostcardCA 166 to Cotta: I request that they send Schrader one copy each of Theory of Harmony and Counterpoint; I announce that I shall send them, or bring them, the ...
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Diary entry for 1911-10-10
... weltlichen Richter! Vielleicht ist alle Freude im letzten Grunde nur ein psychischer Reflex der Ideenassoziationen,Schenker's interest in the theory of the association of ideas goes back at least to c.1903 and the unpublished essay Nur ein Gleichnis, also ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-30
... die Arbeit, deren Pate er selbst war. Rothschild had provided generous subventions for the publication of Schenker's Theory of Harmony and the first volume of Counterpoint. So schmutzig ist seine Gesinnung, daß er sich lieber nach der Höhe meines ...
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Diary entry for 1914-10-24
... 250 Kronen a month. Weisse again confirms that Adler keeps my work out of the seminar library, and indeed on account of my remark in the Theory of Harmony. Weisse asks for information about Brahms's Haydn Variations, which are supposed to be coming up ...
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Diary entry for 1914-11-25
... various philosophical theories, such as that of Nietzsche. The narrow-mindedness of the businessman rabble is demonstrated here in its most luscious form; for if the questions of the Americans were to be called logical, then it would be just as logical to ...