I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment. — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano.… — David Markson Copy Share Image
