musik ohne worte

Counterpoint is the total ordering of sound, the complete management of time, the minute subdivision of musical space, and absolute absorption for the intellect.

GHOST

Stanisław Skrowaczewski (1923 - 2017)

Strike on the tinder, ho!

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Competitions are for horses, not artists

In some tones the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to want to show every other feathered creature what real singing would be.

Human beings are free wherever Wagner and Beethoven are played. Music transported them to the regions where the torturers and murderers could do them no harm.

There is no document of culture which is not at the same time a document of barbarism