"Nothing is more difficult than talking about music: if it is a prickly business for musicians, it is almost impossible for anyone else—the strongest, subtlest minds go astray."
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“L’illusion wagnérienne”, Portraits et souvenirs, Société d’édition artistique, 1899, 206‒220
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