Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.

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.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.