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Diary entry for 1918-01-10
... , democracy is really not endowed with culture. Their language is simply and solely self-interest, baseness, and an ideology that merely conceals their baseness. Germany would have to answer such democratic tone in the language of democratish; and the German ...
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Diary entry for 1923-07-04
... first Prelude in C major – against Werker! Resembling me in tone and conviction, he naturally lacks the purely musical reasoning. Wonderful starry sky, we read the star chart. ...
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Diary entry for 1925-02-08
... backlog. On the radio: Mozart Oboe Quartet; song recital by Slesak: he sings flat, apparently the result of an effort to produce fullness of tone. The case is reminiscent of Theodor Reichmann. In addition, the performance is not in true art song style; the ...
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Diary entry for 1925-09-12
... a relationship to Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven or Goethe, Schiller. It is understandable how the Jews Popper and Brandes, who do not possess a trace of artistic sensibility, and to this day still throw themselves to the ground before this tone of an ...
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Diary entry for 1929-10-02
... Töne. Das Orchester Bauer (?) spielt Schumanns Ouvertüre „Julius Cäsar“ – ein ver- letztes Achtel-Maniakentum – dann Joh. Strauß „Wo die Citronen blühen“. 2. Cloudy, still with foehn wind. From Deutsch (letter= OJ 10/3, [107]): the model of the table ...
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Diary entry for 1929-11-13
... realization would have been appropriate – apparently the author is not comfortable in striking a serious tone; he feels happier where the joke is center-stage – it would have been all the better, then, if he were at least to raise a serious question; – (Niese ...
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Diary entry for 1929-12-14
... gemalt, umso schlimmer für das Volk. Man denke nur an die russischen Barbarismen von Tschaykowski oder an die spanischen, die jüngst in Umlauf kamen – immer u. überall dasselbe: des Volkes Begabung zur Musik reicht nicht über ein paar Töne hinaus, die ...
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Diary entry for 1930-08-20
... publicity and the force of destruction? – The tone of Kestenberg's letter is as enthusiastic as the cause truly deserves. ...
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Diary entry for 1933-01-25
... the announcement of her son’s death; he complains about the mode of address! To Karpath (letter): see above. "Consecutive Fifths" for Free Composition completed, "Passing Tone" begun. To Deutsch (postcardWSLB-Hds 191.575): concerning the Englishman ...
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Diary entry for 1933-07-04
... after Klara and Oskar. To Oppel (letter): thanks for the birthday wishes; I draw on the gently pessimistic tone of his message, and portend the grim prospects for the next generation. If only there were an enforced uniformity of the geniuses – but as ...