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

Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, German Musician

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

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"With creative people, truly new horizons open up."

People

"If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief."

Opportunity

"And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away."

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"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."

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"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."

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