Schuman Composer Biography Wikipedia

Robert Schumann; - - German composer, conductor, musical critic, teacher. Quotes around the Rules chain should always be twisted by a silver thread of fantasy. Always play as if an artist listens to you. Who does not play with piano, does not play on it. Fingers should create on the piano what the head wants - and not vice versa. Sweets, cookies and sweets cannot be grown from children of healthy people.

Like bodily food, the spiritual should also be simple and nutritious. Talent works, a genius creates. Without enthusiasm, nothing is created in art. I am interested in everything that happens in the world: politics, literature, people. I reflect on everything in my own way, and then it is looking for expressions and pours out in music [1]. Try to recognize tones and frets from a young age.

Bell, glass frame, cuckoo - listen, what sounds they make. Play diligently gamma and other fingers. But there are many people who believe that this is what is achieved, who, until old age, spend many hours every day behind technical exercises. This is approximately the same as to read the aloud daily and try to do it faster and faster. Use your time with greater benefit. Play rhythmically!

The game of some virtuosos is similar to a gait of a drunk. Do not take an example from them! Study as early as possible the basic laws of harmony. Do not be afraid of words: theory, harmony, counterpoint, etc. Never pound on the keys! Play with meaning and do not stop at half the play. Pulling and hurrying is equally large mistakes. Try to play light plays well and expressively; This is better than mediatingly fulfill difficult.

Always take care of the cleanliness of the settings of your tool. It is necessary that not only your fingers take possession of the play, you must also be able to hum it to yourself without the help of the tool. Exacerb your imagination so that you can keep not only one melody in your memory, but also harmony accompanying it. Even if you do not have a good voice, try to sing from a sheet without the help of a tool; Thus, you will develop your hearing.

If you have a beautiful voice, not hesitated for a minute and develop it; Consider this as the most beautiful gift to which the sky endowed you. Always play as if you are listening to a great artist. When you play, do not worry about who listens to you. If you are offered to play an unfamiliar composition from the sheet, then first run it first with your eyes, in its full volume.

When you are older, do not play fashionable works. Time is expensive. We must have a hundred human lives to get acquainted only with all the good that exists in the world. The entire trash of passages has a transient value; The technique has value only where it serves the highest goals. Do not spread bad works; Try to block the path to fame in every way.

You should neither play bad works, nor listen to them, unless you are forced to do this. Do not strive for the brilliance of execution. Try to make the music the impression that the author had in mind; more is not necessary; All that is over this is distortion. Consider the ugliness to change anything in the works of good composers, to skip or, good, add newfangled jewelry to them.

This is the greatest insult that you can apply to art. Choosing plays for work, advise with the elders; You will save yourself a lot of time. Gradually get acquainted with the works of famous composers. Do not deceive yourself with success, which the so -called large virtuosos are often conquered. The approval of artists let it be more valuable for you to recognize the whole crowd.

Everything fashionable goes out of fashion; If you are chasing fashion, then, old, you will not inspire respect to anyone. Playing a lot in society is more harmful than useful. But never miss the opportunity to participate in a joint game in duets, trio, etc. This will make your game of full life, meaningful. More often accompany the singers. If everyone wanted to play the first violin, it would be impossible to make an orchestra.

Respect therefore each musician in his place. Love your tool, but in your vanity, do not consider it the highest and only. Remember that there are others and equally beautiful. Remember the existence of singers; Do not forget that the highest in music finds its expression in the choir and orchestra. When you grow up, communicate more with scores than with virtuoso. Play diligently fugs of large masters, especially I.

Then you will certainly become a thorough musician. Look among your comrades to those who know more than you. You can learn a lot from singers and singers, but do not trust them in everything. See diligently in the choir, especially medium voices. It will make you a good musician. But what does it mean to be musical? You are not musical if, fearfully staring at the notes, you can hardly play your play; You are not musical if in the case when someone accidentally turns you two pages at once, you will stop and you can’t continue.But you are a musician, if in a new play you approximately guess what will happen next, but in a friend you already know it by heart, in a word, when your music is not only in your fingers, but also in your head and in your heart.

But how to become musical? A sweet child, the main thing is acute hearing, fast receptivity - is given, like everyone else, from above. But abilities can be developed and improved. You will not become musical if, having easily retained, you will engage in technical exercises all day; You will approach the goal if you support living, multilateral communication with the musicians, and, in particular, if you constantly deal with the choir and the orchestra.

Explore the limits and properties of the human voice in its four forms from a young age; Especially listen to the voices in the choir; Find out in which registers they have the greatest strength, in which expressions of softness and tenderness are available to them. Listen carefully to all folk songs; This is a whole treasury of the most beautiful melodies, they will open your eyes to the character of different peoples.

As soon as possible, note the sound and nature of various instruments, try to capture in your hearing their peculiar sound coloring.

Never miss a chance to listen to a good opera. Do not judge the composition, listening to it once: what you like at the first moment is not always the best. Masters require a deep study. Much will become clear to you only in adulthood. Someone claimed that a good musician should be able to imagine even a difficult orchestral work in the form of a score for the first time heard.

This is the highest perfection that you can imagine. There is no end to teaching. With one hand, the youth disconnects the chain, the other indicates the future, where it will dominate the new kingdom, which, like paradise of Mohammed, is entwined with wonderful diamond threads and stores alien, unprecedented things that Beethoven already informed us, and repeated by the bright young man Schubert with his childish, fabulous tongue, she made a blue, she produced a blue The impression, although by that time we had already begun to get used to virtuoso pianists.

Lviv, he only quietly mumbled something back. With the famous violinist Molik, only a few days before who arrived in St. Petersburg, he started, however, something like a conversation, but almost a whisper and without any revival. Schumann was sitting more and more in the corner, near the piano in the middle of the hall stood puppers for Oktet Mendelssohn that was performed on that day; He sat with his head, his hair hung on his face; The expression was severely thoughtful, the lips seemed to whistle.

With Schumann, as I saw him that evening, the stucco medallion in full -size sculptor Dondorf is completely similar. Clara Shuman was a little more talkative and was responsible for her husband. In the game on Piano, she showed herself a great artist, with male energy and female instinct in understanding and performance, although she is only years old.

But it can hardly be called her woman graceful and pretty. In French, they both speak with a German accent, in German-like true Leipzig.