"Generally speaking, the germ of a future composition comes suddenly and unexpectedly. If the soil is ready — that is to say, if the disposition for work is there — it takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity, shoots up through the earth, puts forth branches, leaves, and, finally, blossoms."
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Quoted in letter to Nadezhda von Meck from Florence (1878) before setting out the "programme" of the Fourth Symphony
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