Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

-- Born in 1685 in Eisenach

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

-- Born in France in 1862, Claude Debussy opened new frontiers of harmony and timbre that reshaped Western music. Works like Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, La mer, and his Preludes for piano freed French music from German Romantic dominance and profoundly influenced twentieth-century composers. His sole completed opera, Pelleas et Melisande, offered a radical alternative to Wagnerian music drama. Though he rejected the label, he

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

-- Born in Salzburg in 1756

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

-- Born in Bonn in 1770

The music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought.

-- Born in Hungary in 1811, Franz Liszt