... graph is unworkable. b) The Urlinie is the most important event in the heads of musical geniuses. Principal key, neighboring keys, diatony and the whole of chromaticism ‒ forgive me if I speak in terms of composition, but you must understand this ‒ all ...

... should be regarded as a genuine Mozart letter. I regard this very document rather as prejudicial, particularly in relation to your magnificent theory of the veneration of genius. Since I do not wish, dear Professor, to contradict you in public, and on ...

... Uebereinstimmung betreffs der Notwendigkeit einer Disziplin gegenüber dem Genie." ("To Dahms (letter): reasons for delay, thanks especially for his agreement over the necessity for a discipline with respect to genius."). der mich sehr beglückt hat. Ich hätte Ihnen ...

... genius and its perfection. As often as I grant that you are right when you rebuke a windy attack, I do have the impression that you are tempted actually to censure the attack in itself. ‒ When you write that certain characteristics in Bruckner ...

... beautiful surroundings ‒ the musical performances, however, are altogether inferior to the prevailing average in Berlin. Interesting in many respects is the Wagner exhibition under the title "Genius at work." In the section "Champions of Wagner," Hermann ...

... the spirit of German genius is to be robbed of its life for all eternity. I have the feeling that the murder has already been carried out, and that German culture is now ripe to be put forward as a subject of instruction in high school, alongside that ...

... of a man of genius. You, however, lay bare the laws of immortality! You actually define the concept of the artist, while the others set out with this as a given!! And herein lies the grotesque impotence of all those biographical attempts ‒ the ...

... German-Americans regard themselves first and foremost as Americans. I know that he felt hurt after reading your Mission of German Genius; he too possesses a fanatic feeling for his native land; and as a result he often forgets that German blood courses ...

... genius. I will therefore say that I do not in the least expect hope to have be able to satisfy you and meet your wishes fully as regards the substance of my work, but that I will nevertheless feel myself fortunate if now and again you find something ...

... us five days. Then visits followed, until on the 29th we departed and made a stop in Salzburg. It was a magnificent world that Mozart first glimpsed there, but for the youth it soon became intolerably — well, narrow; for the sake of his genius, he had ...