Romain Roland, French musicologist and author. First quote in an article on Richard Strauss, published on 15 June 1899 in the Revue de Paris. the article is translated and contained in Rollo Myers (editor), Richard Strauss and Romain Rolland, Calder and Boyars, London, 1968, quote Page 178. The second quote from an article written in 1905, “French music and German music”, also contained in the Myers volume, page 210.https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Strauss