The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?

A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.