Vulgar words in Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers (Page 1)
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Your compositions are the most brilliant of bastards, the most lamentable of legitimate things.
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Moussorgsky, before him, had trusted in his own innocence instead of in the wisdom of the fathers of the musical church, had dared obey the promptings of his own blood and set down chords, melodies, rhythms, just as they sang in his skull, though all the world rise up to damn him.
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And so his work became the doubtful and bastard thing it is, a thing of lofty and original intentions unrealized, of large powers misapplied, of great and respectable creative efforts that did not succeed in bringing into being anything really new, really whole.