"Cette face de l’instrumentation est exactement, en musique, ce que le coloris est en peinture."
— Hector Berlioz

January 1, 1970

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A travers chants (1862), ch. 1 ; Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay (trans.) The Art of Music and Other Essays (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994) p. 5.