Robert Schumann19 definitions
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
1810 – 1856
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Aesthetics's (n.) principle the same in every art, only the material differs.
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The Artist's (n.) function is to send light to the dark hearts of men.
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The Beginner (n.) is, when good and firey, always standing higher than a master in mediocrity.
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Composing (n.) is just remembering a little melody that no one has come up with before.
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Composing (n.) is to remember music that has never been written.
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Composing (n.) is easy. All you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
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Felix Mendelssohn (n.) is the first musician of the day, who plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.
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A Genius (n.) is perhaps the only one who can truly understand Genius.
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Genius's (n.) principal mark is not perfection, but originality.
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Genius (n.) is differentiated from talent in this: talent works, genius creates.
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Music (n.) is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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Music (n.) owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.
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Music (n.) induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
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Music (n.) is - so different from painting - the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.
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Musical composition (n.) is easy. All you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
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Richard Wagner (n.) is impossible. He talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.
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Talent (n.) is differentiated from genius in this: talent works, genius creates.