It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.
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If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
After all, lyrical poetry's main concern is to express, inc this way, a fleeting constellation of various elements.
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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
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