A Turning Point in the History of Music?
Achille-Claude Debussy
Prélude à L'Après-midi d'un faune
"... the flute of the Faun brought new breath to the art of music" ... Pierre Boulez
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21 in A Major
"He is the only musician who had as much knowledge as genius, and as much genius as knowledge." ... Rossini
An Artist Poisoned with Opium
Hector Berlioz
Symphony Fantastique
"emotional (imitation) is designed to arouse in us by means of sound the notion of the several passions of the heart, and to awaken solely through the sense of hearing the impressions that human beings experience only through the other senses. Such is the goal of expression, depiction or musical metaphors"