I feel grateful to the happy chance which forced me to compose freely and in silence, and has thus delivered me from the tyranny of the fingers, so dangerous to thought.
Original text (French)
Original text (French)
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Instrumentation is to music precisely what color is to painting.
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