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Diary entry by Schenker, dated November 15, 1908

[ Excerpt from diary entry expressing anger at Hirschfeld's review of Niloff: Instrumentations-Tabelle. ]

15.11.08 [...] Ein Anderer ^{Dr. Rob. Hirschfeld}|¹: Unfähig zu meiner Harmonielehre Stellung zu nehmen, wendet er sich desto schärfer gegen die Kleinigkeit der „Tabelle“.² [ ... ]

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Diary entry by Schenker, dated November 15, 1908

[ Excerpt from diary entry expressing anger at Hirschfeld's review of Niloff: Instrumentations-Tabelle.]

November 15, 1908 [:] [ ... ] Someone else ^{Dr. Robert Hirschfeld}|¹: incapable of making a comment on my Theory of Harmony, he turns all the more sharply against the more modest [ Instrumentation ] Table.² [ ... ]

© Translation Ian D. Bent 2005.

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FOOTNOTES:

¹ Robert Hirschfeld: pupil of Eduard Hanslick, author of Das kritische Verfahren E. Hanslicks among other works, and prominent Viennese music critic. [more]

² Clearly the Niloff Instrumentations-Tabelle, first published on or by October 29, 1908 (OC 52/398).

SUMMARY:
[ NMTP I = Harmonielehre:] Robert Hirschfeld unable to make anything of.