Summary: Continuing this week’s series of things I wish I’d written… this is from a 1934 article by the great English music critic Ernest Newman: “We know rather more now about the psychology of artists than we used [to], and so we no longer incline to the naïve belief that if a composer has quarreled with his wife his next symphony will be a Pathétique, or that if his liver happens to be functioning normally he will produce a Hymn to Joy at the next [Choral] Festival.
