It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
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It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.
I feel thoroughly contemptible as a musician, whereas you, as I have now convinced myself, are the greatest musician of all times.
The character of instrumental music: lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
We must recognise two categories of artists, those that produce and those that interpret, and agree that between them there is none other than this material difference.