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Diary entry for 1915-08-31
... deregister from military service. A lead article in the Neues Wiener Tagblatt by Dr. Steinwender voices opposition to the push towards middle schools! A monstrous attack upon the rights of the poor, who would at the least lose the opportunity to be educated ...
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Diary entry for 1915-12-01
... , flößt dein Namen", for soprano and echoing soprano voice, in the fourth part of the oratorio (no. 39). der Echo-Wirkung zuliebe, der Dirigent die weitestgehende Freiheit in Form einer spielerischen Verlangsamung zugab. Infam war der Vortrag des ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-27
... same feeling of friendship and love for France. The address suggests that America's judgment, after due consideration, has fallen in favor of France. The American conscience is raising its voice against the damage to civilization caused by France ...
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Diary entry for 1916-12-14
... thing as in political life: the little ones are hanged … and so on. English newspapers are behaving presumptuously in the most abhorrent manner. Hindenburg raises his voice in warning, evidently to give emphasis to the offer of peace. However rich the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-12-29
... as its starting point that voice leading and harmony should be taught in such a way that they show how art and theory basically represent a unified, indivisible concept. Further, I tell him that in Counterpoint 2 I adduce the evidence for only a few ...
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Diary entry for 1917-01-30
... the first page and, in an even more decisive way, that there was also a four-voice fugue among the manuscripts, which as a form would be inaccessible to laymen who had not actually been taught it. Finally I ascertained that the baroness asked for a ...
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Diary entry for 1917-02-08
... Mittler: concerning bars 9–10 of the Adagio (anticipation; concerning bar 5, the cadence and voice leading in it; on bar 5 of the last variation, and the arrangement of the triplet figures in it); finally I advise him to ask Hertzka to send me his ...
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Diary entry for 1918-12-09
... principal authoritative voice of German Austria in Switzerland, Baron Haupt: "We have become a landlocked state and we shall fully have to come to terms with this." Extremely serious concerns for European civilization: "it is a frightening reality." Dr ...
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Diary entry for 1919-02-02
... tone of voice in which grievances suffered ring out; if the journalists had latched on to him during all these years, today he would be unnecessary! Concerning the war of artworks! Gothein: on the danger of an attack by the Bolsheviks, on the shortage ...
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Diary entry for 1919-03-12
... Magyars (in the tone of voice of the Entente): "gentlemen of this state …" Riots in Neunkirchen. Neues Wiener Tagblatt: "False Calculation" (on disarmament!): "The chief military officer is in favor of (disarming) disarmament, but only for the disarming of ...