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Searched for composition (1168 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1922-09-18

    ... Dr. Halberstam (letter from August 27 via Galtür): he thanks me, does not agree with my political direction. From Kohn increase to 100,000 Kronen. From Halm compositions. From Schaab (letter): asks how high my lesson fee is. From Hans Guttmann ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-10-23

    ... Deutsch at her death in 1917 for the award by Schenker of two stipends a year for "impecunious skilled composers and similarly qualified composition pupils," which the Akademie had challenged. Nach Tisch Spaziergang – bei Medek den Badeofen eingefordert ...

  • Diary entry for 1926-06-18

    ... Abenlandes: Umrisse einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte, 2 vols. (Munich: Beck, 1918–22); vol. 2 subtitled "Welthistorische Perspektive." Schenker, who had written a "Decline of the Art of Composition" two decades earlier, would have found a sympathetic ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-07-02

    ... Oppels Messe The a capella Mass, Oppel's main compositional project for 1926, was written in memory of his first wife, Gertrud, who had died on August 4, 1925 after a long illness. Schenker examined it closely and sent Oppel copious notes on it (now lost ...

  • Diary entry for 1927-07-29

    ... downstairs with him until 10:30. The quality of being partly complete, partly incomplete, which is evident in his compositions and essays, also surfaces in his conversations; he apparently lacks the power to follow things through, as I have often hinted at in ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-04-04

    ... .011%. To Oppel (letter): we gladly expect him in Galtür, where it is easier to get together than in Vienna; I agree that one can no more easily learn composition in school than one can the art of poetry; the nuts and bolts of music must at any rate be ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-10-20

    ... Hausschuhe (32.50). Bei Waldstein Vorfrage nach einem Feldstecher; er trägt einen zur Probe an. An der Chopin-Etüde op. 10 III. 20, spring-like. From Klara (letter): many pictures from Galtür and other places; the excellent composition makes these pictures ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-09-07

    ... in itself delightful; now the joy in expressing gratitude in the unusual form of a composition and its writing-down – finally, the excellent content! After teatime, tea bought for Wilhelm: 8.50 shillings. ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-02-03

    ... /3, [117]): Donnerstag gilt. Von 11–½1h bei Haas wegen der Händel-Kantaten, 50. Bd. No. 8 u. 21 (für Oppel); Regarding Oppel's realizations of Handel cantatas, see Timothy L. Jackson, "Heinrich Schenker as Composition Teacher: The Schenker‒Oppel Exchange ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-10-19

    ... Sonderdrucken (hoffe Schönbergs Aufsatz Arnold Schoenberg, Zur Frage des modernen Kompositionsunterrichtes, Deutsche Tonkünstler-Zeitung, November 5, 1929; Eng. trans. On the Question of Modern Composition Teaching, Style and Idea, trans. Leo Black (London ...

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