Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.