The Life and Works of Robert SchumannG. Bell, 1900 - 276 pages |
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... individual mind . That mind was even at this time so fertile , that it required but a few years of careful nurture to produce an abundant har- vest of wonderful and classic masterpieces . Schumann was not expressly trained for a ...
... individual mind . That mind was even at this time so fertile , that it required but a few years of careful nurture to produce an abundant har- vest of wonderful and classic masterpieces . Schumann was not expressly trained for a ...
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... individual development was the musical life of Leipsic , which seems even then to have been extremely well ordered . We must once more affirm that intercourse with musical people appealed to him far more , and with greater suc- cess ...
... individual development was the musical life of Leipsic , which seems even then to have been extremely well ordered . We must once more affirm that intercourse with musical people appealed to him far more , and with greater suc- cess ...
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... individual sentiment of a distinct subject the object of his representation , and thus brought the song to its highest perfection of form ; but at the same time he suggested those minor instrumental forms in which mo- dern masters have ...
... individual sentiment of a distinct subject the object of his representation , and thus brought the song to its highest perfection of form ; but at the same time he suggested those minor instrumental forms in which mo- dern masters have ...
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... individual expression . They ac- customed themselves to consider everything on the vastest scale of dimensions , in the broadest relations , so that in their hands even the song became a scena , and the lesser instrumental forms the ...
... individual expression . They ac- customed themselves to consider everything on the vastest scale of dimensions , in the broadest relations , so that in their hands even the song became a scena , and the lesser instrumental forms the ...
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... individual experiences , and this tendency soon so com- pletely mastered him that things gradually ceased to have much significance for him , save in as far as they were capable of musical transformation ; thus he became ever more and ...
... individual experiences , and this tendency soon so com- pletely mastered him that things gradually ceased to have much significance for him , save in as far as they were capable of musical transformation ; thus he became ever more and ...
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