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Excerpt from Piano and Singing, Didactical and Polemical: For Professionals and Amateurs
The musical world receives from me a book of a peculiar kind not a scientific book, arranged on proper system - such a demand no reasonable man will make of an old music-master, who, during his long practice in the realm of sounds could not arrive at scientific, frequently barren, deductions. What I offer here is the experience of my life. Nature has made me susceptible to everything that is good and beautiful, a correct instinct and a tolerable understanding taught me to avoid the untrue and the hateful, aspiration to higher knowledge led me to pay attention to everything that I came across on the path of my life, and I need have no hesitation in asserting that I have striven 'to fulfil according to my strength my vocation on earth. This is no boasting; it is no more than the legitimate declaration of a good conscience, and this no man need con ceal. For these reasons I have judged it proper to send these outpourings of my heart forth into the world. Perhaps there are some Sympathetic souls that are willing to understand and comprehend me; still happier should I be if some music teacher or other were to adopt the views laid down here, and with diligence and prudence were to read between the lines many good things that could not possibly be written down in full detail. Material still in plenty lay spread out before me indeed, while I wrote it increased under my hands. Art is so very comprehensive, and all the phenomena of life stand in the closest relations with it. Whoever loves and cultivates it sincerely finds in it every day new sources of enjoy ment and new impulse to inquiry. Even the most experienced artist always remains a learner, and to teach art especially is to learn day by day.
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The musical world receives from me a book of a peculiar kind not a scientific book, arranged on proper system - such a demand no reasonable man will make of an old music-master, who, during his long practice in the realm of sounds could not arrive at scientific, frequently barren, deductions. What I offer here is the experience of my life. Nature has made me susceptible to everything that is good and beautiful, a correct instinct and a tolerable understanding taught me to avoid the untrue and the hateful, aspiration to higher knowledge led me to pay attention to everything that I came across on the path of my life, and I need have no hesitation in asserting that I have striven 'to fulfil according to my strength my vocation on earth. This is no boasting; it is no more than the legitimate declaration of a good conscience, and this no man need con ceal. For these reasons I have judged it proper to send these outpourings of my heart forth into the world. Perhaps there are some Sympathetic souls that are willing to understand and comprehend me; still happier should I be if some music teacher or other were to adopt the views laid down here, and with diligence and prudence were to read between the lines many good things that could not possibly be written down in full detail. Material still in plenty lay spread out before me indeed, while I wrote it increased under my hands. Art is so very comprehensive, and all the phenomena of life stand in the closest relations with it. Whoever loves and cultivates it sincerely finds in it every day new sources of enjoy ment and new impulse to inquiry. Even the most experienced artist always remains a learner, and to teach art especially is to learn day by day.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Friedrich Wieck
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ISBN - 9780484865678
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Page Count - 142
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ISBN - 9781330034620
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm
Page Count - 144
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