... reflection. Where my playing was concerned, my account of the Fantasy came out perhaps too tranquil and too slow. The Scarlatti sonatas sounded really lively on the excellent Bechstein piano — a piano that really has its own individuality, even without a ...

... for kindly sending me the parcel, and for the accompanying letter which interests me greatly. I did not want to write to you until I had read the commentary on the two sonatas. (I did not receive Op. 109 at the time it was published!) I have had a ...

... evenings in Vienna and Berlin respectively. A couple of German engagements may perhaps be added to those. Everything is made so fearfully difficult now. I hope my poor head will stay the course. A thousand heartfelt thanks for the A-major Sonata. It arrived ...

... like to appear at your place in the morning of the first Christmas holiday. How deeply I look forward to this. Then we can talk over everything; and I can tell you again that I didn't receive any of the Beethoven sonata volumes, that we are relatively ...

... , when it ordered the collected edition (of the Beethoven sonatas) received the reply: is no longer sold. The first case I have already ascertained; the second will become clarified to me in a few days. What wretched advocates you have! If both situations ...

... separators. I recently found a very nice example, from your point of view, in the Andante of the "Pathétique" Sonata. There, all of Beethoven's slurs were re-slurred. (I think it was Winterfeld's edition.) I have so little money that I cannot unfortunately ...

... only talked about the sonata. She said that you had indicated that it would interest you if she were to work further on it. So I said to her, "Okay, then of course you can send it." She did it on her own according to instructions she did not fully ...

... , ostentatious and also immodestly insincere imitation of your "Chromatic" in the Bach-Jahrbuch? Laughable!! Unfortunately, I must play Beethoven's Op. 102 and Chopin's Cello Sonata on January 7. I was hired. So nothing will again come of Christmas in Vienna ...

... hatte ich u. habe ich in der linken Hand eine unangenehme Sehnengeschichte. Offenbar auf rheumatsicher Basis. Ich mache Schlamm (Radium) Umschläge. Das KonzertA recital of cello sonatas by Beethoven (Op. 102) and Chopin (Op. 65), mentioned in Violin ...

... acquaintance (on the Board of the Creditanstalt) informed me today that he has in his possession the autograph manuscript of Brahms's Piano Sonata in C major, along with two choruses from Op. 104 and the cadenzas composed by Brahms for Beethoven's Piano ...