Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumannwas a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher Friedrich Wieck that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury ended this dream. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth8 June 1810
CityZwickau, Germany
CountryGermany
The study of the history of music and the hearing of masterworks of different epochs will quickly cure you of vanity and self-adoration
Talent works, genius creates.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity...
Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.
I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.
If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.
From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.
In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.