 | Ernest Newman - 1927 - 172 pagina’s
...himself a composer, Beethoven thus described his own method of working : " I carry my ideas about with me for a long time — often a very long time — before I write them down." (This would seem to confirm the conjecture that the sketches represent anything but the first conceptual... | |
 | Nicholas Cook - 1990 - 276 pagina’s
...according to Louis Schlösser, Beethoven described his own compositional process in almost the same terms: I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down. ... I change many things, discard and try again until I am satisified. Then, however, there begins... | |
 | Carl Dahlhaus - 1991 - 302 pagina’s
...that it has appropriated for aesthetic effects. 7 The 'Underlying Idea' I carry my ideas around with me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down. My memory remains so true the while that I am sure not to forget a theme, even years later, once I... | |
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I am sure never to forget, not even in years, a theme that has once occurred to me. I change many things, discard and try again until I am satisfied. Then, however, there begins in my head the development in every direction and... 