To send light into the depths of the human heart -- this is the artist's calling!

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Original: Licht senden in die Tiefen des menschlichen Herzens -- des Künstlers Beruf!; Quoted in E.W. Fritzsch (1884) Musikalisches Wochenblatt, Volume 15

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To send light into the depths of the human heart -- this is the artist's calling!

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