"Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi."
— Music

January 1, 1970

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Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. — Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. From a letter to , April 17, 1712. Quot. after: Schäfke, R. Geschichte der Musikästhetik in Umrissen. Mit einem Vorwort von Werner Korte. 2 Aufl. Tutzing, Schneider, 1964, S. 289