Anton Seidl Quotes

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• I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious…
• I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident,…
• Composers are not all good conductors.
• America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships…
• Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
• It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
• Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
• Of course, experience strengthens one later.
• The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
• The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had…
• The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly…
• It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of…

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