Under the Auspices of the German Cultural Foundation
Ignorance in the Fundamentals of Medical Music
GERMAN MEDICINE FORUM: This response letter of the music and medicine publisher Aar Edition represents without doubt the great potential of our modern, scientifically formed democracies against the reactionary forces of medieval character.
“What kind of philosophy you choose,
depends upon,
what kind of person you are.” Fichte
“Everybody, who feels within him,
That he can work something good,
Has to be a nuisance,
He must not wait, until one calls for him;
He must not mind, if one sends him away;
He must be, what Homer praises at the heroes,
He must be like a fly, which, chased away,
Attacks man over and over again
From a different side.” Goethe
“At the tree of the press
better fruits will not grow,
before the leaves are not freed
from the vermin of insects.” Leuthold
“Concentrated thinking
is a tremendous force
and the divine power reacts on it.” Richard Strauss
“If he knows how to contact that power,
he becomes the projector
of the infinite invisible into visibility,
or rather into audibility,
in the composer’s case.” Max Bruch
“Through the temple of music
we find our way into divinity.
Here we experience our true resurrecting.” Goethe
“Music is the art of the prophets,
the only art,
which can soothe the turmoil in the soul;
it belongs to the most splendid
and most precious gifts,
God has given us.” Martin Luther
“Everything is transient,
only God’s word remains eternally –
and God’s word reveals itself
in the creations of a genius.” Liszt
“I know very well, that God is closer to me
in my art than to the others,
I treat Him without fear,
I have recognized Him each time,
and I have understood Him.” Beethoven
“Only divine art,
only there are the levers which give me strength,
to sacrifice the best part of my life
to the heavenly muses.” Beethoven
“That is how art always represents divinity,
and the human relation to it is religion.” Beethoven
