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¹ Schenker's diary for Friday March 12 records: "Weisse reports that Adler praised his work extraordinarily, especially the analysis of the Brahms waltzes (!), even thanking him for his great effort and his evident industriousness. Thus brought into a state of embarrassment, Weisse for his part had to thank Adler for his musicological guidance, whereupon the latter said, with a patronizing smile, 'Yes, that’s something you are learning here with me.'
Most amusing, of course, was that Adler, when confronted by 'causality' [Causalität] and 'synthesis' [Synthese], i.e. those terms that I myself use with my pupils and in my writings, wanted in all cases to replace them with the concept of 'style,' which he propagated in his own writings. Adler’s obsession is all the more grotesque in its effect as he still does not understand at all what Weisse – what I – mean by causality and synthesis. The end result is also this: that Adler himself apparently does not connect 'style' with anything precise, correct; for otherwise he would have to know whether he can use this concept at all where I speak about 'causality' and 'synthesis'." — Friday was a regular lesson day for Weisse.

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