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 in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.”
-- Anton SeidlSource : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.105, Parrot Press
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“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 been conceived was placed upon conductors.”
-- Anton SeidlSource : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press
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“The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.”
-- Anton SeidlSource : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press
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“Of course, experience strengthens one later.”
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“Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.”
-- Anton SeidlSource : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.106, Parrot Press
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“It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.”
-- Anton SeidlSource : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.103, Parrot Press
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“Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.”
-- Anton SeidlSource : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press
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“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 for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.”
-- Anton SeidlSource : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.106, Parrot Press
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“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, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.”
-- Anton SeidlSource : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.102, Parrot Press
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“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 believed.”
-- Anton Seidl
