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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

German Musician

Born: May 28, 1925

Died: May 18, 2012

First Music Schubert Stage Work You

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With creative people, truly new horizons open up. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Creative People Horizons Open New Truly Up Creative People

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Life My Life Important Every Think Our Case Fact Instrument Occupied Important Role Role Artist In Fact Whether Should Element Play Playing

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Today Mirror Own Duty Other Our Alive Admittedly Still Era Hand Up Artists Hold Really Works Lives

Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Work Good Believe Aid Other Rather Had Songs Reminded Schubert His Conditions Very Which Social Social Conditions Among Things

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

First Single Bit Melody Out Born Composition Entire Poem Overall Perhaps Also Line Text Form Even

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Publish Everything Absolutely Absolutely Everything Wrote Schubert Believed Ever Need

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Life Speak Sense Thinking Others Minds Way He Toward Longer Himself Causing His His Way End Behalf Them Speaking Now

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

All music has to speak in some form or other. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Music Speak Other Some Form

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Music People Breath Make Desirable

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Music Time Doors Nothing Unity Lasting Once Out About Thrown Had Performed New Come Pieces Opera Houses Truly Close Going Orchestra Dying Then Nothing New Next Away

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Music Me Will Most Occupy Always Thing

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Faith You Space Stage Enormous Other See Facial Only Individual Put Opera Singer Dolls Reflected Personal Which Little Much Expressions Among Things Presence Row

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