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174 I love Italian opera—it’s would not bother
so reckless saying it in music
La traviata, Giuseppe Verdi Das Lied von der Erde,
Gustav Mahler
176 Who holds the devil, let
him hold him well
Faust Symphony, NATIONALISM
Franz Liszt
1830–1920
178 And the dancers
whirl around gaily in the 206 My fatherland means more
waltz’s giddy mazes to me than anything else
The Blue Danube, The Bartered Bride,
Johann Strauss II Bedrˇich Smetana
179 I live in music like 207 Mussorgsky typifies
a fish in water the genius of Russia
150 No one feels another’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in Pictures at an Exhibition,
grief, no one understands G minor, Camille Saint-Saëns Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
another’s joy
Die schöne Müllerin, 180 Opera must make 208 I am sure my music has
Franz Schubert people weep, feel a taste of cod fish in it
horrified, die Peer Gynt, Edvard Grieg
156 Music is like a dream. The Ring Cycle,
One that I cannot hear Richard Wagner 210 I wanted to do
String Quartet No. 14 in something different
C-sharp minor, Op. 131, 188 He … comes as if sent Requiem, Gabriel Fauré
Ludwig van Beethoven straight from God
Symphony No. 1, 212 The music of the
162 Instrumentation is at Johannes Brahms people is like a rare
the head of the march and lovely flower
Symphonie fantastique, 190 The notes dance up there Symphony No. 9,
Hector Berlioz on the stage Antonín Dvorˇák
The Nutcracker,
164 Simplicity is the Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 216 Music is a language
final achievement of the intangible
Préludes, Frédéric Chopin 192 A symphony must Woodland Sketches,
be like the world. It must Edward MacDowell
166 My symphonies would contain everything
have reached Opus 100 if Also sprach Zarathustra, 218 The art of music above
I had written them down Richard Strauss all the other arts is
Symphony No. 1 (The expression of the soul
“Spring” Symphony), 194 Emotional art is a kind The Dream of Gerontius,
Robert Schumann of illness Edward Elgar
Tosca, Giacomo Puccini
170 The last note was drowned 220 I am a slave to my
… in a unanimous volley 198 If a composer could themes, and submit
of plaudits say what he had to their demands
Elijah, Felix Mendelssohn to say in words, he Finlandia, Jean Sibelius
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