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• Diary entry for 1917-01-29

  ... misunderstandings: the one regarding youth, as if every youth were automatically a genius-imbued complete entity; the other regarding quarter tones, about which I note that even our chromatic system presupposes the strongest feeling for diatonicism, and that a ...

• Diary entry for 1917-03-31

  ... not being able to offer him a similar joy with my own works, as I assume that my occupation is foreign to him. Nonetheless, if we are merely striving after the same goals, to relieve the disrepute surrounding genius, then it may suffice for him to know ...

• Diary entry for 1917-04-26

  ... sciences as a counter-proof, we should instead regard it more than ever as confirmation that, for human beings, much still remains to be discovered. This process, moreover, is clearly evident in the connectedness of geniuses among each other and in their ...

• Diary entry for 1917-05-12

  ... spiritual eyes of geniuses; but as they are only spiritual eyes, they are of no use at all to the people. To Dr. Neumann (second visit). The tendency to form republics is in itself already welcomed by money states and large states; for they will have such an ...

• Diary entry for 1921-07-27

  ... disposed to be philistine and bourgeois in relation to a genius, at least to a certain degree. Antonio envies Tasso's profession, Leonore wants an adventure in love; the princess does love him, albeit only with bated breath (of course, she is depicted as ...

• Diary entry for 1925-03-19

  ... pleasant balance, if completely lacking any hint of a stroke of genius, of course. Regarding the harp playing, I noticed clearly how close modern piano playing in essence comes to harp playing. Sekles: serenade for ten instruments and harp: the first ...

• Diary entry for 1929-08-19

  ... his genius as such in taking the position of Cantor. Seen in this way, one can understand why, being saddled with the cantorate, which did such great damage to his social standing, he struggled to gain the position of music director, as he had had in ...

• Diary entry for 1933-06-23

  ... Philharmonic under Heger play Rossini The Barber of Seville, Heger (Variations), Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony. Bruckner and Johann Strauss, the Austrians, have – before our very eyes, before the whole world – been summoned to the Valhalla of Genius!!! ...

• Diary entry for 1934-10-09

  ... on his nerves: "a misadventurer"! It would suit him if he Jonas were blessed with genius and money, and placed these gifts in the service of the couple. Fortunately, it will still take some time before this plan is realized, since their first priority ...

• ... greatest genius in painting if he were, unfortunately, born without hands?” — Schenker’s diary for the December 18 has the paragraph: “‘Create, artist, don’t talk!’ means that the artist should express himself in a deed, that words should not take the place ...

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