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Diary entry for 1908-11-15
... evenings during the winter months [he acts as a] judge over composition, performance and instrumentation ‒ he deems it perfectly appropriate for him to find fault with this or that work that a composer or orchestra has delivered because he labors under the ...
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Diary entry for 1914-09-14
... erwarte ich noch von anderen Schülern, doch immer sich die Zukunft eben erst walten lassen. Marpurg-Studien, besonders 1. Teil. Schenker owned four works by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Handbuch bey dem Generalbasse und der Composition, 3 vols (Berlin 1757 ...
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Diary entry for 1915-12-04
... : Mendelssohn's overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage; Strauss's Alpine Symphony, and Mozart's Symphony in E flat major. Weingartner's art of reproduction is perhaps a more calamitous fact than Strauss's composition; for Weingartner willfully destroys a life ...
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Diary entry for 1916-12-06
... , one places oneself immediately before the compositions themselves. On the other hand, a great deal of gibberish about "progress"! As small tables are shifted in spiritualist, everyone is playing with the table-shifting of progress – Brahms alone never ...
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Diary entry for 1917-09-04
... mountain hut. Both this clarity and also the limited ascent, and finally also the agreeable composition of the ground make the entire path a largely trouble-free and thoroughly charming walk. The end of the valley of course leads to something grander, as ...
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Diary entry for 1925-03-27
... TyrolTyrol. Invitation to the composition concert from Weigl. At Baumgarten's from 10:15 to 1:00: corrections to the draft. He dedicates a full hour to the question as to why it is that I am unknown in Vienna; he advises me to be more forward and to see to it that my ...
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Diary entry for 1928-11-13
... compositional activity as an outlet for his personal strength and vanity; Vrieslander is lacking such an outlet and he seeks to make space for himself beside me. – in this respect he could not maintain the pace, etc. Radio: Sonja Palm sings lieder by Schubert; a ...
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Diary entry for 1932-09-27
... pay if I am unable to do so?" Work in the morning in the alcove on the second section "Ursatz in General" for Free Composition, chapter 1. From 5:45 to between 8 and 8:30, Deutsch and his wife and department counselor Dr. Tomasberger: I recommend that ...
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... . 298, is a composite of the music examples presented by Felix Weingartner in his book on the Beethoven symphonies in support of his ‒ in Schenker's view erroneous ‒ arguments about the first movement. Seinerzeit habe ich diese Fig. schon gesehen, nur ...
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... Reiches ist ihm gewissermaßen schon gegeben." ("From Halm (letter): has sent a string quartet through a teacher leaving Wickersdorf. Status of his compositions and his relationships to publishers. Guesses that his compositions will not appeal to me; wants ...