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Searched for composers (836 results found)

Filter: correspondence: 321, diaries: 236, person: 182, lessonbooks: 45, work: 15, organization: 12, other: 11, journal: 3, place: 2

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  • Diary entry for 1926-03-22

    ... performed by two or several instruments. He played two pieces by Schumann, "Langsam" u. "Mit Humor," with incomparable beauty – he concluded the concert with a sonata by Bréval, a Parisian cello virtuoso and composer who also has synthesis-bearing merits ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-11-30

    ... improvisation; of Brahms, a composing score of the Paganini Variations, and so on; the fair copies are less interesting: Beethoven's Op. 78, a Prelude and Fugue in B minor by Bach, Brahms's Op. 5; and so on. The head of the business, (Hinterberger?) complains ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-05-28

    ... repeated now extremely loud, now extremely soft. Suck und Novak were even weaker. The conductor did a disservice by exporting these works in the first place! The warmth of the strings was agreeably conspicuous; otherwise, these poor composers do not enable ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-09-18

    ... Frenchman! In terms of art, the question of instrument has no role to play; for the smallest and least developed instruments, the most deeply conceived pieces were written; for the most developed, no more music of any use whatever is being composed. That the ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-12-01

    ... theory from a practical point of view. And so he succeeded, deservedly, in overtaking the assistants and promoters in my circle and in taking, from the riches of his activities as a teacher and composer of chamber music, the necessary equipment needed to ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-12-31

    ... thematisch verwertet sehen. See diary entry for November 25, 1930, in which Schenker records sending Berrsche a Brahms anecdote, in which the composer has the punch-line: "But just look beyond the eighth bar!" Von Reigersberg (K.): dankt für meine Mitteilung ...

  • Diary entry for 1934-09-29

    ... Schubert dating from 1817; the score of song, which Otto Erich Deutsch discovered and gave to Schenker to complete, was printed in Radio Wien on the occasion of a RAVAG competition to compose a suitable text for the song. See Otto Erich Deutsch, Ein ...

  • Diary entry for 1934-10-06

    ... Weisse (letterOJ 15/16, [95]): he has spent the happiest of summers, he extols the landscape: sea, mountains, baths, and people; he has composed assiduously (a string quartet!). With regard to Jonas’s book, he misses the creative element! Now that his ...

  • Diary entry for 1936-09-17

    ... householder of Cottagegasse 20, Amalie Scheidl, is described in the Vienna street directory as a “composer.” She was also the householder of Hasenauerstraße 12, in which Jeanette had lodged in October and early November 1935. Obsteinkauf. Auf dem Rückweg trete ...

  • ... do not yet achieve the delineation found in C. P. E. Bach and later composers. On the nature of thematic material in Scarlatti in contrast to later ones; (see Kleine Bibliothek!) from Brahms’s Piano Quartet in C minor, from the first section and the ...

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