![]() ![]() Alfred Brendel, 'Schubert's Last Sonatas', in: Music Sounded Out (1990)Ī rare genius whose innocent yearning for affection was expressed in music as pure as spring water. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair. To wander is the Romantic condition one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. Music is the heart of life.' She speaks love 'without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful. In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. Such is the spell of of your emotional world that it very nearly blinds us to the greatness of your craftsmanship. ![]() Robert Schumann, letter to to Friedrich Wieck, 1829 quoted in Gal, The Musician's World (1965) Where other people keep diaries in which they record their momentary feelings, etc, Schubert simply kept sheets of music by him and confided his changing moods to them and his soul being steeped in music, he put down notes when another man would resort to words. Franz Liszt Quotes: Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. Johann Mayrhofer quoted in Westrup, Schubert Music (1969) Famous Quotes by Franz Liszt, Hungarian Composer, Born 22nd October, 1811, Collection of Franz Liszt Quotes and Sayings, Search Quotations by Franz Liszt. His character was a mixture of tenderness and coarseness, sensuality and candour, sociability and melancholy. ![]()
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