The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
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Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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