The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imagin….

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist..

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice..

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's relig….