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Quotes from Technical Manifesto of Futurist Music — Francesco Balilla Pratella

d. 1955 Italy

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Knowledge of instrumentation should be acquired through experience. Instrumental composition should be conceived instrumentally, imagining and hearing a particular orchestra for each particular and diverse musical condition of the mind.

Technical Manifesto of Futurist Music (1911)

All innovators, logically speaking, have been Futurists in relation to their time. Palestrina would have thought that Bach was crazy, and Bach would have thought Beethoven the same, and Beethoven would have thought Wagner equally so.

Technical Manifesto of Futurist Music (1911)

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