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

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

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

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

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.