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Searched for "compositional" technique (1312 results found)

Filter: diaries: 721, correspondence: 382, person: 114, lessonbooks: 57, work: 12, other: 9, organization: 7, place: 4

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  • ... Music,” will demonstrate the defective character of composition and form in the works of modern composers (R. Strauss, Reger, Debussy, and others), “cacophony,” and so forth. These will be followed by proposals for reform, as well as a critique of ...

  • Diary entry for 1907-09-29

    ... Ages, but less one of belief than of ‒ commercialism! The work of art ‒ a network of ideas and intentions. In modern compositions, so-called moods from time to time collect ‒ just as water does in various places on the earth's surface. Even where wealth ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-10-25

    ... important positions for individual music societies such as the Concert Society, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Philharmonic Choir, etc. Considering that the Ministry still offers much too little for the principal matter of music, namely composition, it is ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-11-07

    ... from view. The picture, moreover, applies also to modern compositions; and in the same way that the constant digressions in the conversation betray a lack of respect for the matters under discussion, so the constant changes of harmony in music ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-05-23

    ... . nicht in die Reihe Beethovens gehören: possibly "not to be of Beethoven's rank"; but also suggesting that Wagner was not part of the Beethoven tradition. In his long essay Über den Niedergang der Kompositionskunst ("The Decline of the Art of Composition ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-07-20

    ... to things that evidently define the good qualities of the former. – If only things were so easy in art, so that from bad compositions one could understand by oneself the good qualities on which the masterworks are based. A marvelous sunset: evening ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-09-08

    ... des Herrn v. Stein Presumably the general quartermaster Hermann von Stein (1854–1927), who was responsible for the composition of reports from the German military. über die Pflicht, solid, kurz u. konzentriert die Ereignisse zu beschreiben. in HS ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-04-11

    ... , that does not prove, say, that they were of the same opinion as those who were favorably disposed, but rather that they were completely lacking in the understanding of counterarguments. For if they knew something about, for example, how compositional ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-02-08

    ... published compositions and to use the opportunity to request from him my Op. 110 and Op. 111. Wilson is snubbed by all the neutral countries! This transformation already shifts him into the buffoon-like; one could say: a traveller in foreign cultural values ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-06-27

    ... invitation. I intentionally turn the conversation towards the feuilleton about the young Beethoven, whereupon the worthy gentleman explained that such things had no connection with composition and were therefore of no value! He has, moreover, spoken with the ...

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