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150 No one feels another’s
grief, no one understands
another’s joy
Die schöne Müllerin,
Franz Schubert156 Music is like a dream.
One that I cannot hear
String Quartet No. 14 in
C-sharp minor, Op. 131,
Ludwig van Beethoven162 Instrumentation is at
the head of the march
Symphonie fantastique,
Hector Berlioz164 Simplicity is the
final achievement
Préludes, Frédéric Chopin166 My symphonies would
have reached Opus 100 if
I had written them down
Symphony No. 1 (The
“Spring” Symphony),
Robert Schumann170 The last note was drowned
... in a unanimous volley
of plaudits
Elijah, Felix Mendelssohn174 I love Italian opera—it’s
so reckless
La traviata, Giuseppe Verdi176 Who holds the devil, let
him hold him well
Faust Symphony,
Franz Liszt178 And the dancers
whirl around gaily in the
waltz’s giddy mazes
The Blue Danube,
Johann Strauss II179 I live in music like
a fish in water
Piano Concerto No. 2 in
G minor, Camille Saint-Saëns180 Opera must make
people weep, feel
horrified, die
The Ring Cycle,
Richard Wagner188 He ... comes as if sent
straight from God
Symphony No. 1,
Johannes Brahms190 The notes dance up there
on the stage
The Nutcracker,
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky192 A symphony must
be like the world. It must
contain everything
Also sprach Zarathustra,
Richard Strauss194 Emotional art is a kind
of illness
Tosca, Giacomo Puccini198 If a composer could
say what he had
to say in words, hewould not bother
saying it in music
Das Lied von der Erde,
Gustav MahlerNATIONALISM
1830 –206 My fatherland means more
to me than anything else
The Bartered Bride,
Bedrˇich Smetana207 Mussorgsky typifies
the genius of Russia
Pictures at an Exhibition,
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky208 I am sure my music has
a taste of cod fish in it
Peer Gynt, Edvard Grieg210 I wanted to do
something different
Requiem, Gabriel Fauré212 The music of the
people is like a rare
and lovely flower
Symphony No. 9,
Antonín Dvorˇák216 Music is a language
of the intangible
Woodland Sketches,
Edward MacDowell218 The art of music above
all the other arts is
expression of the soul
The Dream of Gerontius,
Edward Elgar220 I am a slave to my
themes, and submit
to their demands
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