In a message dated 9/21/01 5:09:17 PM, johnlink@n... writes:
<< I recall reading somewhere (I don't know where) that the jazz pianist
Bill Evans liked to quote a statement of Goethe's along the lines of
the following: Anyone can be a master who is willing to work within
his limitations.
Judy (or anyone else that could help), do you have any idea where
Goethe might have written that? >>
John,
I'm not really anyone's idea of an expert on Goethe, but I am pretty handy
with a search engine! Here's what I found:
The line "In der Beschraenkung zeigt sich erst der Meister" is from a sonnet
written by Goethe upon the opening of the new Playhouse in Lauchstaedt on
the 26th of June, 1802. It was a part of the prologue, Scene 19. This was a
thought he was wandering around with at the time. In my little Insel Verlag
_Goethes Gedichte in zeitlicher Folge_, 1.489, it is grouped with another
sonnet with the same thought. It is often called just Sonett or Natur und
Kunst. It means: "It is not until limitations are put on him that the
master really shows himself."
Judy
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