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Searched for genius (411 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1919-03-30

    ... imperative to save as much of the head as possible! How deplorable, that there is not a single genius in sight on the entire planet who can offer advice and help! Mules are always at odds with each other, and the biggest mule plays himself off on the tiger ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-12-01

    ... knows, discretion plays more than a small role. But even beyond that, Goethe must be handled as a genius with the specific role of nature, of creation, and to the greatest as to the smallest being, experience or law found in it. in shorthand He ...

  • Diary entry for 1923-09-21

    ... nice production. To Caland (letter via the publishing house): I thank her for the album, over and beyond all the specific services, for the intention, for the will to genius, for the capability for enthusiasm: "therein alone lies the future – otherwise ...

  • Diary entry for 1924-10-26

    ... edition. To Hoboken (letter): thanks for the pictures, although I have never been a friend of the French and am not one now either, I would be the first to welcome a French musical genius. Of course there is currently nothing visible, the art of music is ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-02-14

    ... variations in the spirit of the teaching Weisse received. Warburg tells Weisse that he had Korngold on a car trip; he spoke of me as a force, but added: But you see, my son has become a genius even without that. Another student of Weisse encounters a ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-07-15

    ... Mendelssohn speaks about the work in the investigating committee. He shows a real feeling for the greatness of genius and sees Bismarck totally in a world that is appears not to be of this world. Still he finds him deserving of criticism because he wanted ...

  • Diary entry for 1925-10-30

    ... than by himself: a thing of genius is so much more beautiful than oneself. This sorrowful promotion of his own being, which required repeated confirmation during every lesson, this misconduct of the intellect and the heart is the very thing that ...

  • Diary entry for 1928-02-09

    ... of the finale of the Piano Quartet Op. 25, which is the proudest monument of Hungarian music, of the sort that only a genius-bestowed German can erect). At the end, there was still the Violin Concerto in D major by Paganini. Brünauer brings to his ...

  • Diary entry for 1929-03-10

    ... if the work of a talent or genius could be developed.") Weisse says that he has worked through the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier. From this I conclude that, when working on this, he occasionally stumbled from one difficulty into another and ...

  • Diary entry for 1930-09-06

    ... pyramids of the Egyptian kings as a travel destination!) How this enabled the brilliance of a genius like Mozart to have an economic impact! (Poor Mozart, too, underwent a crucifixion (??); he sacrificed his life for art, so that others could make money ...

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