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The melodic idea which suddenly falls upon me out of the blue appears in the imagination immediately, unconsciously, uninfluenced by reason. It is the greatest gift of the divinity and cannot be compared with anything else.

— Richard Strauss

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My wife, my child, my music, Nature and the sun; they are my happiness.

Declarations about war and politics are not fitting for an artist, who must give his attention to his creations and his works.

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Please start from the Bruch violin concerto again!

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