The young Wolf was one of those people who would recite a poem to themselves a hundred times, until they had found the music that goes with it.
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Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.
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Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
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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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After all, lyrical poetry's main concern is to express, inc this way, a fleeting constellation of various elements.
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Had Beethoven been able to carry out all his plans to fruition, then, for example, today we would have his opera Macbeth, a Faust, and many others. He would have contracted himself to write a whole series of operas.
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