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Diary entry for 1914-12-03
... of people can be so great that the fulfillment of their own wish itself always stands in the way, should, in theory, actually remain impossible. And yet this stupidity is truer than truth itself! I almost get the impression that some ghosts are ...
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Diary entry for 1915-11-11
... latest conditions. List & Franke's catalog now also includes the New Musical Theories and Fantasies. Newspapers print the speeches of two English lords in the upper chamber of Parliament, in in which is given some understanding of the situation. But ...
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Diary entry for 1916-07-05
... repaired: a new one must therefore be made! In Germany, personal economic theory has recently become a college subject; see the Ostdeutsche Rundschau, first July issue. I gather from this that the businessman is taking care of his profits in such a way that ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-17
... of my theories, he regards this in any event as a necessity of nature. Field postcard to Hans: thanks for his signs of life, and greetings! Ordinary people? Better: negative people, negative characters …. To create opposition to others is something ...
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Diary entry for 1917-04-07
... studying my Theory of Harmony with a friend. FromOC 52/196 U.E.: they are sending a presentation copy of my work to Dr. Türkel without charging me. Postcard from Hans from Mährisch-Schönberg: Easter greeting with the announcement of a "gift of love." To Dr ...
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Diary entry for 1917-04-14
... . Postcard from Bruno Schrader: he has sent me two issues of the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and asks for further information about my Theory of Harmony and Counterpoint; he would have gladly written more if only had more space allotted for it. From the ...
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Diary entry for 1917-07-08
... secret intention of a warning) about the recent review in Der Kunstwart to spare Halm making a similar error, possibly even at the last moment. Postcard to Cotta: I request that they send Halm review copies of Theory of Harmony and Counterpoint 1 ...
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Diary entry for 1917-12-07
... scale-step theory and suchlike! To Rothberger (postcard): about the article in Der Merker, which I recommend him to read; likewise to Mittelmann (postcard). Graf Czernin makes a second speech with even more decisive subject matter: he substantiates von ...
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Diary entry for 1924-01-30
... integrity of their creative production, but their voice-leading is flawed, obviously due to a lack of improvisational ability, that which in my view derives from a misunderstanding of thoroughbass and of harmonic theory. Bring up Oppel's Op. 26 No. 1 and a ...
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Diary entry for 1924-09-01
... Gottfried Rüdinger (1886–1946): theory teacher at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich. kommt ins Vermischte; Hindemith – Schott, Jahresrente; die Geschichte des Schönberg-Inserat als Hertzkas Racheakt! Entstehung der Vierteljahrschrift; Dank für Zustimmung ...