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Diary entry for 1926-01-05
... subtitles (on a German folksong) by an Italian composer active in Vienna, later murdered by the Turks is thoroughly uninteresting in its figurations, although it is richly decorated. Even the choice of piece by Couperin was not the most fortunate – Wührer ...
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Diary entry for 1926-08-25
... promises to send the remainder to Vienna; he regrets that I do not wish to recognize his financial difficulties! A truly odd character trait of this person: he is clearly determined to compel me to teach his son without charge (throughout the year), even ...
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Diary entry for 1927-06-27
... . schwere Autos sie befahren. Der Fall Grosavesku On February 19, 1927, five days after appearing as Rigoletto at the Vienna State Opera, the celebrated 32-year-old Rumanian tenor Traian Grosavescu was fatally shot by his jealous wife Nelly. hält uns so in ...
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Diary entry for 1927-12-24
... shillings. From Mrs. Pairamall (telegram from France): greetings, she accepts for January. From Miss Pollak a cyclamen! Radio: a presentation beneath all criticism! Even the works sung by the Vienna Boys' Choir were performed carelessly; a performance on the ...
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Diary entry for 1928-05-28
... leaving Vienna already on June 15. To Cube (postcard= OJ 5/7a, [15]): I am sending him at the same time my Beethoven essay in the Bonn newspaper and mention that now even the Americans are assiduously working at the Urlinie. From 10:30 to 2 in the ...
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Diary entry for 1928-07-13
... , fair weather. To Cube (letter= OJ 5/7a, [17]): thanks; correction of the remarks regarding Joachim and Brahms; I request that he send the second picture to Vienna, but not until October. Lie-Liechen buys two headscarves (4 shillings) and paper and ink ...
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Diary entry for 1928-07-21
... Walter – home at 5:30. Work on Der freie Satz. From Mrs. Pairamall (telegram from Semmering): letter from Gastein to follow. In the evening, Dr. Schreiber from Vienna appears, with whom we became acquainted at the Pension Wetterstein in Seefeld. ...
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Diary entry for 1928-09-26
... ) and Neue musikalische Gedichte (Dresden 1928) are known to have been in Schenker's personal library at the time of his death: see Musik und Theater enthaltend die Bibliothek des Herrn Dr. Heinrich Schenker, Wien (Vienna: Antiquariat Heinrich ...
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Diary entry for 1928-09-27
... . Invention No. 14, in B major, corrected. Radio: from 9:30 to 11:30, in the steps of Eckener; finally cancellation of Vienna. The waiting time for a concert of records, much that is attractive is slipped in. P. senior brings the cactus plants himself, takes ...
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Diary entry for 1929-09-02
... (postcard from Lie-Liechen): greetings. From Baumgarten (postcard): he cannot understand why I knew nothing of the Heidelberg affair. At 5:45, the dictation concluded; the remainder in Vienna. I ask the concierge for the bill, find 45 shillings per night ...