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Searched for master (9 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1913-11-25

    ... . XI. 13 November 25, 1913. Floriz at lunch, and at the coffee house: was his visit really conceived, and realized, without any reservations? Approximately: "Thinking is so troublesome that for this very reason the masters preferred – to make judgments ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-11-03

    ... , rather than marveling at it in, for example, Mozart or another of our great masters! But of course that simplicity is even more complicated: that is why it seems to them to be merely simplistic. The paper-mâché simplicity of Strauss attracts them with its ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-12-30

    ... the masters fail to reach the world in tones, it is still necessary for there to be tongues in words, to make them comprehensible to the world! – I would gladly take the opportunity to show Vrieslander the value of an elucidatory edition in its true ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-10-24

    ... that he would otherwise have reported – would have had to report – for duty in the struggle against errors. If he had in anyway felt the injustice done to the masters, he would never have avoided taking the trouble to do what a Mendelssohn, Schumann ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-10-18

    ... words than merely to speak it at all, those who can merely do the latter become envious of those who are capable of the former. Thus Ibsen was the herald of the naked truth – our masters on the other hand, especially Schiller, heralds of a truth which ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-04-14

    ... music can never be based on other laws; however, the counter-proof to this could only come from producing works of similar perfection to those of the masters, not by theorizing. But how my opponents take care most of all to make my works known! It is no ...

  • ... Schenker criticizes those who regard the Classical masters as "reflective," rather than spontaneously creative. See Heinrich Schenker, The Decline of the Art of Composition, ed. and trans. William Drabkin, Music Analysis 24 (2005), especially pp. 39–40 (in ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-10-27

    ... humbly approached those masters who in their own way had already led art to its limits. So long as the material fulfills it intrinsic truth by being realized artistically, no part of that realization is to be regarded as untrue or antiquated. Everything ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-11-20

    ... moral slap in the face by explaining that, in that case, our great masters have been recognized even less – which is actually the ultimate reason why I give proof of that in my own sphere of activity, and not where an unworthy bystander will scribble ...

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