... delighted to hear that you had a good journey and also pleasant musical travel companions. That the lady with whom you became acquainted was taught according to Thuille unfortunately corresponds with the usual practice. So many teachers admire and value ...

... (Ferdinand Löwe I do not know) executed superbly. I have a great love for Bruckner. His music touches me with such immediacy, without the need for reflection, that I can never escape its "magic" (for me in the truest sense of the word). In Riemann's Lexikon I ...

... " still has much to learn. Since I am not well-liked in certain cliques, and since denunciations pour in in the news editorials after every single act of my appearance against fashionable music, this would provide a new weapon against me, one I would ...

... would put all my energy into making your stay a pleasant one. The "new course" in Germany is now showing itself in the so-called arts: Schreker as the Director of the Berlin Music Highschool. This is more than one can ask for. Wishing that you are able ...

... dramatic style in music, so that above all it can be newly built. I have been advised to go to Cotta (Schuster & Loeffler are far too narrow-minded and can hardly be considered a possibility for such a work). My request, dear master, would be that you ...

... . When will they finally capture the last artist and thinker? one or more pages missing the crazy thing seems to me, and someone in the Berlin music-critic circle considers me generally as completely forgotten, stultified in "enthusiasm for the classics ...

... title "musical" in the German colony, it is confined to the narrow Roman horizon, vain, magniloquent, and impenetrable. I have therefore achieved even here, where there are some very well-off people, hardly any success with my subscription. One is ...

... me: I read a while ago in an ‒ in itself trivial ‒ popular essay in an illustrated newspaper something about scientific research into "Music in Nature." It was said there that the tones produced by a fast-flowing stream have been measured, and that ...

... hat; selbst die im Klaviersatz oft noch arg trocken, dünnen Haydn u. Mozart sind darin beträchtlich weiter gekommen als Em. Bach. Schkr scheint mir ihn in dieser Beziehung zu überschätzen. Sonst sag ich mit Edu. Krüger:Eduard Krüger (1807-85), music ...

... application for the post at the Society of the Friends of Music which, as I hear, was resolved yesterday in such a way that I was chosen in the first instance for the second position; that is, the beautiful Bella is advancing and I am ruling out the other ...