{FEUER} It was the spirit of Christianity that rewoke to life the soul of Music. (…)
[P. 123] {FEUER} As for our present Civilisation, especially insofar as it influences the artistic man, we certainly may assume that nothing but the spirit of our Music, that music which Beethoven set free from bondage to the Mode, can dower it with a soul again. And the task of giving to the new, more soulful civilisation that haply may arise herefrom, the new Religion to inform it – this task must obviously be reserved for the German Spirit alone, that spirit which we ourselves shall never rightly understand till we cast aside each spurious tendency ascribed thereto.” [791W-{9-12/70} Beethoven: PW Vol. V, p. 121; p. 123]
[792W-{9-12/70} Beethoven: PW Vol. V, p. 126]
[P. 126] {FEUER} “ … what our thinkers, our poets, in toilsome transposition, had only touched as with a half-heard word, the Beethovenian Symphony had stirred to its deepest core: the new religion, the world-redeeming gospel of sublimest innocence, was there already understood as by ourselves.” [792W-{9-12/70} Beethoven: PW Vol. V, p. 126]
[793W-{1/22/71} CD Vol. I, p. 325]
[P. 325] “That is where the drama must come in. I am no poet, and I don’t care at all if people reproach me for my choice of words, in my works the action is everything. To a certain extent it is a matter of indifference to me whether people understand my verses, since they will certainly understand my dramatic action.” [793W-{1/22/71} CD Vol. I, p. 325]
[794W-{2/14/71}CD Vol. I, p. 337]
[P. 337] {FEUER} ” … if everything that belonged together were to be united, we should have the perfect harmony, but also an end of life – that would be the Nirvana of the Buddhists. There had to be a fundamental division in Nature, though of course we can no more comprehend this than the state of complete harmony which excludes life. That is the reason for the popular belief that Paradise would be a boring place.” [794W-{2/14/71}CD Vol. I, p. 337]
[795W-{3/5/71} CD Vol. I, p. 345]
[P. 345] {FEUER} “R. talks about … the genius’s predestination – that a certain longing must be present and in the genius himself dissatisfaction with things as he finds them.” [795W-{3/5/71} CD Vol. I, p. 345]
[796W-{3-6/71}The Destiny of Opera: PW Vol. V, p. 143-144]
[P. 143] {FEUER} “The poet, mapping out a plan of action for the improvising mime, would stand in much the same relation to him as the author of an operatic text to the musician; his work can claim as yet no atom of artistic value; but this it will gain in the very fullest measure if the poet makes the improvising spirit of the mime his own, and develops his plan entirely in character with that improvisation, so that the mime now enters with all his individuality into the poet’s higher reason. (…) At anyrate we believe we shall really expedite the solution of an extremely difficult
