"Compared with this art, Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire is lukewarm lemonade."
— Ferruccio Busoni

January 1, 1970

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On Alban Berg's Altenberg Lieder, Letter from Busoni to his wife, dated “(Paris, le), 23. Jn. 1913,” in Busoni: Briefe an seine Frau, ed. F. Schnapp (Erlenbach-Zürich/Leipzig: Rotapfel-Verlag, 1935), 279.