Il n’y a rien de pire que de vouloir lier les mains à un pauvre auteur, c’est-à-dire de mettre des limites à son inspiration, à sa fantaisie...
Letter from Boccherini to Pleyel, 18th March 1799
There is nothing worse than wanting to tie the hands of an author, that is to say, set limits on his inspiration, his fantasy.
When I was studying at the Schola Cantorum in Basel in the early 1980s, homesick and ill prepared for the cold Swiss winters, I used to feel a healthy envy of my fellow students of other nationalities who would quite naturally make the case for their respective musical origins in the auditions and periodic concerts in which we were required to demonstrate the progress we had made. |
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