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Walter Raymond Spalding on Imagination

1865–1962 United States

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Schumann claimed that his object in writing music was to influence the imagination of the listeners that they could go on dreaming for themselves.

Music: An Art and a Language (1920)

It speaks to our feelings and imaginations, as it were by suggestion; reaching for this very reason depths of our being quite beyond the power of mere words.

Music: An Art and a Language (1920)

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