A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!
What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.
In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.