All music has to speak in some form or other.
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It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.
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Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
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One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Because lyrical poetry was still relatively new it only first emerged with Klopstock, or, if you will, you might go back to Gryphius. This was a completely new mode of expression. It emerged, at the very latest, during the Enlightenment.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.
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