Quotes by Anton Seidl

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed,...

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The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of...

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The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed...

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Of course, experience strengthens one later.

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Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men...

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It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase....

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It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his...

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I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action...

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I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that...

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Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real...

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Composers are not all good conductors.

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America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music...

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