Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Frédéric Chopin: 'As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Frédéric Chopin: 'Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Frédéric Chopin: 'I shall create a new world for myself.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Frédéric Chopin: 'Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Frédéric Chopin: 'I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'The public is always good.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'Truth is a great flirt.' Read More Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Frédéric Chopin: 'As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Frédéric Chopin: 'Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Frédéric Chopin: 'Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Frédéric Chopin: 'I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.' Read More
Virgil 12/4/23 Virgil 12/4/23 Franz Liszt: 'Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.' Read More