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Diary entry for 1897-06-07
... are gathered together from time to time so-called moods, as at different places on the surface of the earth are ‒ the waters. Ser. A, Paula Szalit prepared for concerts, among other things, J. S. Bach's Fugues in C minor (5-voiced) and E minor. ...
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Diary entry for 1906-12-12
... time strict, inflexible, but not without now and again coming close to what it should be. But the middle movement proves unsuccessful, primarily through neglect of the inner (or arpeggiating voices (left hand), which leads to impoverishment of the ...
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Diary entry for 1907-11-26
... identische Begriffe wären." ("In the concert hall we want to hear feeling, not see it. The evening song recital by Eduard Gärtner exhibited the triumphantly achieved battle of a skilled technician with a small voice. The audience applauded selected songs by ...
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Diary entry for 1912-10-29
... protection against an extra increase of gifts on his part – asks me angrily, in an almost choked voice, what happened to the eighth lesson in November. The record of the number of lessons, once the holidays are discounted, has in fact resulted in an advantage ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-18
... all expectation, the master shows himself immersed in the most intensive work and effort in his research into voice-leading problems. In the evening with Floriz, whose dull existence with his wife and sister is doubly striking after the day's work is ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-16
... orientation with the autograph manuscript. Voice leading of the outer parts completed. ...
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Diary entry for 1916-11-15
... up, in order to install the gas meter. Since on this occasion they have to communicate verbally from the third floor down to the cellar, without being able to avail themselves of a telephone, they are obliged to strain their voices to some extent ...
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Diary entry for 1917-03-18
... woman in Hungarian traditional clothes presses two really big pieces of bread into the hands of the street musician and his child, whereupon the musician calls out in Czech, with a truly heart-rending voice and gesture: "I am so very hungry!" Benefactors ...
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Diary entry for 1922-10-24
... Nice; short walk. Urlinie to Prelude and engraved examples, – then dictated the last paragraph. Pulled out winter coat. Fourth space question answered: ~6 and ~7 as upper thirds to ~4 and ~5 – that clarifies the relationship between voice-leading and ...
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Diary entry for 1924-09-20
... just arbitrarily selected points without evidence of voice-leading do not constitute a connection. 4:30–8:30 Hans and Hertha Weisse; I show them prepared newspapers to nail down things that have been common knowledge for a long time already, but just ...