“To send light into the depths of the human heart -- this is the artist's calling!”

— Robert Schumann

Quotes in: John Sullivan Dwight (1856) Dwight's Journal of Music, Vol. 7-8, p. 12
Original: Licht senden in die Tiefen des menschlichen Herzens -- des Künstlers Beruf!; Quoted in E.W. Fritzsch (1884) Musikalisches Wochenblatt, Volume 15

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German composer, aesthete and influential music critic 1810–1856

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