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“In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.”

Two Fine Giants Rough Thinker Berlioz

Author:Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

“Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!”

Feels Heart Art Painting Like You Dear Dear Friend Wagner Berlioz

Book:Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence

Source: Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”

Fighting Principles Teacher Easier Pupils Great Teacher Hector Berlioz

Author:Alfred Adler

“I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.”

Littles Function Conductor Wagner Windmills Berlioz

Author:Franz Liszt

“It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked him - that is, not liked but . . . how to put it . . . was interested, or whatever.”

Firsts Made Poet Impression Foreigners Berlioz

Book:THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.”

Author:James Gibbons