Music - so different from painting - is 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.
Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.
Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.
When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.
My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.
My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.
I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
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