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Diary entry for 1924-12-16
... externally – the conductor's baton stood still, the singing and the violins stopped and the ending was there, basta! If conductors were asked for an explanation, they said that the only important aspect of such works is the musical architecture, which may ...
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Diary entry for 1925-01-19
... his performance; – an English woman plays the piano in the Brahms quintet: very unmusical and lacking any technique; but she gets what she deserves. The piano was totally in the background, which was completely wrong from a musical standpoint and which ...
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Diary entry for 1925-03-21
... . A Moravian folksong stands out among lute songs sung by Mr. and Mrs. Foltermeier – the other pieces, sung by Mrs. Holm and Mr. Flemming exceeded proper norms with regard to customs and music. ...
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Diary entry for 1925-04-11
... I, found it difficult to have an artistic discussion with him at all. How disheartening to have to say that he nevertheless is and remains the best conductor of the day! After the meal we went into the music room, the Bruckner debate was continued ...
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Diary entry for 1925-12-06
... °. Rothberger from 12:30 to 2:20; begins the drawing, I play music to accompany. – Lie-Liechen's mouth is too pointed! – Rothberger will improve it. He explains that he has declined Cube as a teacher for his wife because he wants to spare his wife an inordinate ...
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Diary entry for 1926-01-05
... keyboard music. Not one piece can measure up to the variations of Sweelinck and Froberger played on the first evening; strangely, however, Prof. Fischer seems concerned precisely about the effect of the first evening. A variation movement with programmatic ...
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Diary entry for 1926-03-22
... brings Schoenberg's Harmonielehre and is given back Kurth and Reger's "Telemann" Variations. He complains about the change in the music business compared to what it was sixteen years earlier. As always, this young man needs a long time to understand that ...
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Diary entry for 1926-07-31
... 'clock to 11.30 in the Jamtal; Lie-Liechen picks a bouquet. At midday it finally stops raining; in the evening, a gentle glowing on the snow. From Haslinger, Fischer's little book on musical orthography. Two stories about horses: Not far from our house, a ...
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Diary entry for 1926-10-03
... another musician – in the composer's presence – "Do you not find it odd that a Jew has set a text of Martin Luther's to music – then later expressed regret that his bad joke was taken so seriously. Ohne Zweifel schwebte ihm der Gedanke vor, daß sich derlei ...
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Diary entry for 1926-10-10
... the review in the Turin music periodical is available. To Drei Masken Verlag (letter): why was their advertisement missing from the issue of Die Musik? To Vrieslander (letter, 11 pages): concerning Hoboken's method of payment, the origins of the same ...