Quotes by Anton Seidl - Page 1

Composers are not all good conductors.
Anton Seidl / Conductor
Composer
Conductor
Composers
Conductors
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Of course, experience strengthens one later.
Anton Seidl / Conductor
Strengthens
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The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
Anton Seidl / Conductor
Ability
Gift From God
Has Beens
Conduct
Endowed
Measure
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Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
Anton Seidl / Conductor
Art
Men
Conductor
Musical
Practice
Search
Warrant
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It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
Anton Seidl / Conductor
Fixed
Nonsense
Phrases
Simple
Tempo
Vocal
Voice
Phrase
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Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
Anton Seidl / Conductor
Book
Importance
Might
Real
Concerning
Scarcely
Subject
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The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.
Anton Seidl / Conductor
Composition
Conductor
Doe
Hands
Unions
Believed
Indeed
Union
Seldom
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The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.
Anton Seidl / Conductor
Composer
Direct
Interpreting
Responsibility
Spirit
Composers
Conceived
Conductors
Placed
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I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.
Anton Seidl / Conductor
Artist
Crude
Devotion
Feelings
Singers
Singing
German
Indeed
Statement
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It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
Anton Seidl / Conductor
Sad
Details
Smallest
Vitality
Wagner
Always Me Singing
Sad Always Me
Responsive
Wasting
Wishes
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America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.
Anton Seidl / Conductor
Teacher
America
Competent
Gorgeous
Halls
Musical
Rooms
School
Study
Teachers
Concert
Talented
Disciples
Expense
Scholarships
Unable
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I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.
Anton Seidl / Conductor
Emphasis
Horny
Insignificant
Mean
Scenic
Significance
Simple
Violin
Apparently
Horn
Incident
Lift
Passage
Transform
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