In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role. |
In music, you have to speak about a form-form, of adopted formal elements that are applied in order to express certain specific things. Because painting with music, that's something completely different. |
In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic. |
It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath. |
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. |
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. |
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. |
Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift. |
Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work. |
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. |
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. |
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. |
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. |
The work is the most important thing. |
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. |