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Diary entry for 1917-04-08
... die Rolle die Frau sich der unwahren Behauptungen wohl bewußt sein muß. Wohl Imim Kampfe um den Mann, im Kampf um gesellschaftliche Geltung hat sich die Frau eines solchen diskret anklagenden Tones bemächtigt, den doch giebt sie ihn leider auch dort ...
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Diary entry for 1908-04-04
... "√" are merely copied superficially; the writing is in any case bad, full of bad passing tones, the endless melody without any formal designs or points of arrival. It is perhaps precisely in the replica that one can best gauge what service the chorale ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-10
... from Karpath in the tone of someone who has been hurt. Reply to it: calm, nonetheless fixing upon the difference between true humanity and one that is reconciled only too cheaply with its responsibilities. Sketches for Chopin's Prelude in F sharp minor ...
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Diary entry for 1913-11-07
... . nach ihm in richtiger Balance gruppiert sind, ähnlich wie in der Musik, bzw. beim Klavierspiel, ein Ton durch speciellen Druck hervorgehoben werden soll, dem zuliebe dann die Töne vor u. nach ihm in tieferem Schatten zu liegen haben. Bei Künstlern wie ...
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Diary entry for 1913-11-30
... , otherwise our job would indeed be very easy." The tone in which he spoke these words would, even from the mouth of a Moltke or a Napoleon, have made a poor impression! Typically Viennese: a steam laundry adheres to neither its collection nor its delivery ...
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Diary entry for 1914-10-16
... danger for interrogating judges because, as witnesses, they get so intoxicated by the novelty of the situation that they imagine their role in it to be larger than life and present the most harmless things in a tone of voice that inevitably creates false ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-10
... everywhere how the storm had piled up branches and leaves into hills, and brooks that overflowed the gutters. Even though the storm had lost its strongest accents by evening, it still continued to rage relentlessly enough in its fundamental tone. During the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-03
... criticism that is, finally, true music criticism; but he also devotes a few words to my polemical style, of which he says that a more conciliatory tone would have performed the same service, if not actually a better one. There is something cursory about the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-22
... the beautiful rhythm in Brahms's Op. 117, No. 1, is conceived in incompetent heads: the fundamental tone appeared each time on the strong beat, and the girl doesn't seem to realize in the slightest that it could or even should be otherwise. In the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-24
... it can take up to eight weeks!" But who would have gathered from his staid tone of voice that the delay with the gas meter was due only to his own slovenliness. In the end, he advised me to make personal plea in the Josephstädter Straße. I now go to ...