Gustav Mahler frasi celebri
“Non conosco nessuno che valga più di me.”
Origine: Citato in Fernando Palazzi, Dizionario degli aneddoti, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, Milano, 2000. ISBN 88-8089-601-6
Origine: Citato in Enzo Biagi, 1935 e dintorni, Mondadori, Milano, 1982, p. 182.
Origine: For a month now I have been an out-and-out vegetarian. The moral effect of this way of life, with its voluntary castigation of the body, causing one's material needs to dwindle away, is enormous. You can judge for yourself how utterly I [am] convinced of it, when I tell you that I expect of it no less than the regeneration of humanity. (dalla lettera a Emil Freund del 1º novembre 1880; citato in Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig, Gustav Mahler: New Insights into his Life, Times and Work, a cura di Jeremy Barham, Ashgate Publishing, 2007, p. 165 https://books.google.it/books?id=VIcSAX6tY1IC&pg=PA165. ISBN 978-0-7546-5353-0)
Gustav Mahler: Frasi in inglese
Letter to Emil Freund (1 November 1880), in Gustav Mahler: New Insights into his Life, Times and Work by Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig, translated by Jeremy Barham, Ashgate Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7546-5353-0, pp. 165 https://books.google.it/books?id=VIcSAX6tY1IC&pg=PA165-166.
Ich weiß für mich, daß ich, solang ich mein Erlebnis in Worten zusammenfassen kann, gewiß keine Musik hierüber machen würde.
Letter to Max Marschalk (26 March 1896). Original German text cited from: Blaukopf, Herta (ed.). Gustav Mahler. Briefe. 2nd edition. Zsolnay, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-552-04810-3, p. 171.
Variante: If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
