Conversaciones con Brahms, Strauss, Puccini, Humperdinck, Bruch y Grieg
The creative process is a mixture of technique, understanding, willpower, gift of imagination, fantasy, determination, burning desire. And no matter how good the execution is, there won't be any composition that lasts without inspiration. When it comes, the inspiration is of such subtlety and finesse (like a wisp) that it escapes almost all classification. Inspiration is an awakening, an activation of all human faculties. The great secret of all creative geniuses is found in the fact that they have the power to appropriate the beauty, wealth, greatness and exaltedness that is within their soul and, at the same time, to communicate such wealth to others.
In this book, Arthur M. Abell collects the testimony of six important figures in Western music - Brahms, Strauss, Puccini, Humperdinck, Bruch and Grieg - in relation to their spiritual, psychic and mental experiences at the mome...read more
