The cog­ni­zant man needs con­fir­ma­tion, by the great men of the world, of his ex­peri­ences, of his in­ner in­sights, of his cog­ni­tions. This se­cures the course of his in­di­vid­ual un­fold­ment. His in­sights are formed by his emo­tional, ra­tional and very per­sonal con­sid­era­tions, and cul­mi­nate in the in­di­vid­ual un­der­stand­ing of his own life situa­tion – his per­sonal life – his eve­ry­thing – his world.

If a man does not gain a friend who genu­inely un­der­stands and con­firms him, who through his own ex­peri­ence un­der­stands the whole di­ver­sity of his eve­ry­day in­ner con­flicts and points out re­al­is­tic so­lu­tions, then, apart from great his­tori­cal ex­cep­tions, the life-path of this seeker is doomed to fail par­ticu­larly at a time when the gen­era­tions have grown apart.

Here lies the true task of the mu­si­cal crea­tor. Here he es­tab­lishes in­di­vid­ual friend­ship. Here he wins the youth­ful man in a moment when he dis­cov­ers truths and needs con­fir­ma­tion of his knowl­edge.

Here the mu­si­cal crea­tor ac­com­pa­nies the young man out of the world of ma­te­rial bounda­ries, away from rou­tine work and the ig­no­rance of the masses, to a world of higher knowl­edge. To this pur­pose, he pro­motes the young man’s per­sonal un­fold­ment – his in­de­pend­ent pro­gress on his in­di­vid­ual path of life to a more com­pre­hen­sive and joyful world, struc­tured by him­self, within him­self.

Mu­sic, and the in­ti­mate deal­ing with the mu­si­cal truth, is con­veyed on a com­pletely per­sonal level, in all si­lence and se­clu­sion – with­out any spec­ta­tor from the masses, be­cause even one’s neighbour is a stran­ger if he is un­able to com­mu­ni­cate on the finer lev­els of higher knowl­edge.

The lis­tener can be in­spired very per­son­ally by the con­ver­sa­tion with the great clas­si­cal com­pos­ers due to its flow of true and liv­ing knowl­edge. There­fore, eve­ry­one de­sires the per­fect re­ali­za­tion of the mu­sic of our great mu­si­cal poets, and to ful­fil this very de­sire is the re­spon­si­bil­ity of the in­ter­preting mu­si­cian.

There­fore the great mu­si­cal crea­tors ex­pect the per­form­ing mu­si­cian to ac­tively and di­rectly take re­spon­si­bil­ity for the in­ner wel­fare of man.

The pow­er­ful pur­suit of the ful­fil­ment of his in­di­vid­ual life is the world proper of man; and the clas­si­cal com­poser is his per­sonal friend who can sen­si­tively en­cour­age his in­di­vid­ual pur­suit with the help of com­pe­tent mu­si­cians and who can in­ces­santly in­spire him to greater hap­pi­ness with his art.

Man’s true world is his crea­tive will to form his en­vi­ron­ment, and this in­ner im­pulse makes his in­di­vid­ual life-path mean­ing­ful.