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Ferruccio Busoni
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“Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.”
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Essence of Music (1923)
“Compared with this art, Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire is lukewarm lemonade.”
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.