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The reason why Schubert is celebrated so much today, lies rather in the fact that there has been nobody else like him - not before him, not after him.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 28
Died: 2012
Died: May 18
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But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.
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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 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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Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
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Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.
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One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.
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I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.
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In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
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Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
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...in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
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Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.
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In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.
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Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.
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With creative people, truly new horizons open up.
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The work is the most important thing.
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It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.
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When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
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What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.
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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.
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