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Diary entry for 1921-06-24
... Kontrapunkt he began to wonder, since he regarded me, like all other theorists, as riding my hobby horse; he could also not comprehend how it could be possible to date music only from Bach onwards, while at the same time teaching strict counterpoint etc ...
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Diary entry for 1923-10-04
... -house guest has a bouquet of carnations brought to him by a waiter – The contemporary world binds no garlands about the actor's head! A musician who used to perform under Furtwängler addresses him; it turns out that he is now playing bar music in the coffee ...
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Diary entry for 1924-03-22
... and thankfully. The pieces have Brahms's good technique in mind, for it was he who first invented them. The first three poems (Goethe) are too demure, too didactic, a lyrical punch line comes to the fore only in the last poem, which is also musically ...
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Diary entry for 1924-05-03
... employees of the sheet music stores, since they are all abundantly supplied with catalogues and prospectuses; encloses a list of persons and newspapers who have received the IV fourth issue, is applying for an increase for a new publicity campaign for the ...
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Diary entry for 1924-09-15
... Stücke nachzuschicken. 15 Nice. Money sent for the accident insurance: 208,000 Kronen. Two copies of the seventh issue to the sheet music shop Bauer in Munich for the display window; letter to Bauer with the request to display the issues. To Engelsmann ...
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Diary entry for 1924-09-24
... indicates. Aimed in Weingartners direction: it is a true act of meanness for a music director to make the others out to be musicians who only follow the notation literally, while making oneself out to be the one who conducts according to the meaning. I say ...
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Diary entry for 1924-09-27
... for Workers) were initiated in 1904 by the cultural commentator and important functionary of the worker's music movement David Joseph Bach, and have been held regularly ever since. Their primary objective was to convey the traditional orchestral ...
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Diary entry for 1924-10-03
... teatime; Professor Stern present. Lengthy conversation with the young Saphir; he tells about his a branch of the [family] piano business in Palestine, about the musical and concert life there; he hopes for an upswing but sees clearly how the English are ...
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Diary entry for 1924-11-07
... . Fair copy of the Prelude of the Partita. The pages arrive from the Prussian State Library: 171,000 rounded up to 180,000 Kronen. Radio: music for the guitar. Lie-Liechen completes the copy of Violin's birthday article; I draft the letter to the ...
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Diary entry for 1924-12-14
... der Torte. Wir werden das Haus nicht mehr betreten. 14 Sunday, –3°, nice. Another fair copy made of music examples and Urlinie graphs of both Short Preludes. 11:30 Rothberger: is making progress, as Lie-Liechen says; Mrs. Rothberger at 1:00; I play ...