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Diary entry for 1917-12-07
... Merker, first December issue, a Mr. Kurt Friedrich in an essay about music criticism concerns himself mainly with the thoughts put forward by me in my prefaces to the Beethoven edition, about the hermeneuticists and journalists. It would not really be ...
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Diary entry for 1918-01-07
... musical ideas over toward sonorities with the tempting word "modern", and now the wordsmith suddenly declares that it is even more modern to have ideas instead of sonorities! As if anyone could wield influence over ideas at all with the catchword "modern ...
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Diary entry for 1918-03-14
... of the dispatch of 40 Kronen and sheet music for Hans; – finally I inclose the invoice and notify her that the money will be sent. Medek has sent an invoice for the replenishment of the gasometer and the repairs to the kitchen stove; it transpires ...
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Diary entry for 1918-04-12
... into an emphatic admonition to be wary of the Germanic sophism and the German book. Concerning the purely musical part he only goes so far as to admit that the edition would be invaluable if only . . Beyond that he does not go substantively into the ...
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Diary entry for 1919-09-13
... (letter): signs up and proposes two lessons; from Oppel (letter with enclosed chaconne): among other things, tells how he was asked by the publisher of a music magazine to write about me, which he refused on grounds that he is himself not yet advanced ...
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Diary entry for 1919-11-04
... :00. To Furtwängler concert; Egmont music with Wüllner: the violins' irritatingly long bowing before a sf rendered the passages rather ponderous. Fifth Symphony performed in a very round, logical form, the conductor's gestures at first glance appropriate ...
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Diary entry for 1923-09-21
... there will be no more German music!" To UE (postcard): I ask for the four issues of Tonwille to be sent to Miss Caland at my expense. Paul v. Klenau from 10:45 to 12:30; about various topics, also including personal reflections of Furtwängler and other ...
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Diary entry for 1923-10-24
... Wednesday, November 7; I promise an abundance of gentleness; touch on the primary difficulty of music, the dependence on a middleman, who actually is always remains invisible unsuitable; in contrast, the painter has nothing to do with a middleman of this ...
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Diary entry for 1923-10-26
... instructive part about it is that the "smart" business people who have joined forces in the Society for Music do not even have the talent to keep the orchestra out of debt, but that a musician can accomplish the task brilliantly! To the Allgemeine Musikzeitung ...
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Diary entry for 1924-01-09
... music store and take this opportunity to complain about the retail booksellers, that is to say, about him. At any rate I request a discount. Tell him about the medallion and the drawing. With Rothberger at 1:30 p.m. to the photographer: four photographs ...