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Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.
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To be German means to carry on a matter for its own sake.
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A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
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Freshly blows the wind homewards: my Irish child, where are you dwelling?
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The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.
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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
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Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
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I am writing Parsifal only for my wife — if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.
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We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness
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On to the stage, prepared by architect and painter, now steps Artistic Man, as Natural Man steps on the stage of Nature.
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The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.
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This is Alberich's dream come true — Nibelheim, world dominion, activity, work, everywhere the oppressive feeling of steam and fog.
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The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.
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Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.
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The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
May 22, 1813
Died:
February 13, 1883
(aged 69)
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