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... Ornamentation, which has been lying on a table in the administrative office of Mr Daniel de Lange in the Amsterdam Conservatory for years for visitors to look at. I venture to conclude from this that the Mr. de Lange, the Director of the institution, views my ...
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... the Anbruch, it means at the same time their - coffin. There they lie now, dead once again . . . . Old and young mummies alike ought first to learn to read music! It is still not "progress" if an ass, who has been silent up to now, suddenly takes up ...
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... music, which is lying idle at your office, without delay. You can confirm for yourself what I have said above as early as tomorrow at 11 a.m., during a lesson that I have to give. With grateful thanks in anticipation, I remain, with kind regards, Your ...
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Diary entry for 1908-04-04
... Polyph., dem Satz darbot: welchen Ersatz bietet nun Ferrari für solche Plastik? Brahms in seinem Requiem behalf sich mit 3-teiliger (Lied-), oder 4-th. Form, ‒ aber ohne solche, ohne feste Plastik überhaupt kann ein Musik-Satz wohl niemals genossen werden ...
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Diary entry for 1913-03-07
... some other sort of reckoning. The appeal to temperament is thus a pure lie, and arose originally as a legal stratagem and later passed into general reasoning. ...
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Diary entry for 1913-05-23
... . There is a grotesqueness in the gestures of forgiveness with reference to Wagner's seriously compromised humanity. For the sake of a Wagner, the world is prepared to conceive a type of genius that lies even beyond the realm of goodness; it would surely ...
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Diary entry for 1913-07-04
... greatest joy is conferred if he leads his being to the furthest point; such development is given also to him, just as the strongest may develop all the powers at their disposal. But now the tragedy lies in the very fact that the weak one plays out the ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-01
... cannot compete for an effect in a hall that can accommodate 5,000 visitors. In each and every art-form, the limits of its own materials, and thus also the limits of its effect, are prescribed. The particular value of art for us lies in the fact that it ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-24
... daughter is not tired of making the long trip four times in order to take receipt of the money. When I made the suggestion that a simple postcard with a reminder would have achieved the same result, she began – and herein lies the depraved Viennese ...
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Diary entry for 1914-07-16
... me of all people (over lunch) about Bülow with a reverence that seems to lie deeply within him, and of which nothing – absolutely nothing – was to be noted about what he has read in my writings about Bülow's transgressions, in spite of his utter ...