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Music is become a complaisant and versatile handmaiden, and, since the impossible is demanded of her, she calls up all her strength to perform at least the unusual.

— August Wilhelm Ambros The Boundaries of Music and Poetry: A Study in Musical Aesthetics (1893)

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