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Quotes from The Boundaries of Music and Poetry: A Study in Musical Aesthetics — August Wilhelm Ambros

1816–1876 Austria

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Music is become a complaisant and versatile handmaiden, and, since the impossible is demanded of her, she calls up all her strength to perform at least the unusual.

The Boundaries of Music and Poetry: A Study in Musical Aesthetics (1893)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: August Wilhelm Ambros (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.