Robert Schumann nejznámější citáty
„Hudba závisí na Bachovi jako náboženství na svém zakladateli.“
[(en) Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.]
Zdroj: [Ewen, David, Composers of Yesterday: A Biographical and Critical Guide to the Most Important Composers of the Past, H. W. Wilson, New York, 1937, 17, anglicky]
Schumann v dopisu matce 30. července 1830.
Zdroj: [Meier, Barbara, Robert Schumann, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1995, 978-3-499-50522-5, 29, německy]
Robert Schumann: Citáty anglicky
“The talent works, the genius creates.”
Attributed to Schumann in: The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 112, 1913, p. 811
“To send light into the depths of the human heart -- this is the artist's calling!”
Quotes in: John Sullivan Dwight (1856) Dwight's Journal of Music, Vol. 7-8, p. 12
Originál: Licht senden in die Tiefen des menschlichen Herzens -- des Künstlers Beruf!; Quoted in E.W. Fritzsch (1884) Musikalisches Wochenblatt, Volume 15
“Perhaps genius alone understands genius fully.”
Sometimes translated as: Perhaps only genius fully understands genius
Original: Vielleicht versteht nur der Genius den Genius ganz, Robert Schumann, Advice to Young Musicians, translation of Musikalische Haus- und Lebens-Regeln, translated by Henry Hugo Pierson, Leipsic & New York: J. Schuberth & Co., 1860.
“In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.”
Quoted in: Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, Evan Esar (ed.), 1949, p. 156.
Early Letters of Robert Schumann (1888), p. 82
