Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
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I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
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A symphony is no joke.
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W. H. Hadow commenting on the music of Johannes Brahms In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.
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Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
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