"Schumann" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... foolish taboos, and prejudices. A savage lives entirely in his senses, hence sensual love is the only kind he can know. His love is as coarse and simple as his music, which is little more than a monotonous rhythmic noise. Just as a man, unless he has musical culture, cannot understand a Schumann symphony, so, unless he has intellectual culture, he cannot love a woman as Schumann ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... we shall not care whether or not we understand the meaning of the words, and what we shall value in the song will be only the peculiar intimacy which it derives from its instrument, the voice. Only rarely is it otherwise, as in some of the songs of Schumann, when the poetic interpretation is so beautiful and so completely at one with the musical feeling, that we prefer to accept it rather than substitute our own interpretation for the poet's. But even so, the music, if genuine, will have value without the words. At the opposite pole are those ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker
... same country-house. It is raining outside. A drawing-room with a grand piano. Tnya has just finished playing a sonata of Schumann's and is sitting at the piano. Stypa is standing by the piano. Bors is sitting. Lyba, Lisa, Mitrofn Ermlych and the young Priest are all ...
— The Light Shines in Darkness • Leo Tolstoy
... the piano in the corner. It was a tall Collard, shaped, above the key-board, like a cupboard. After touching the notes softly, to be sure they were in tune, she drew over a chair, and fell to playing Schumann's "Warum?" very tenderly. It was a tinkling instrument, but perhaps her playing gained pathos thereby, before such an audience. At the end she turned round: there were tears in ...
— Noughts and Crosses • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... have Spohr's "Faust," with new recitatives, and shall give Schumann's "Manfred" at the beginning of June. Of the Ballenstedt Musical Festival, with the "Tannhauser" overture, and the "Liebesmahl der Apostel," you ...
— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1 • Francis Hueffer (translator)
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