Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales..

I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera..

In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker B….

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity..

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestatio….

And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet we eat it with pleasure. An….