The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ`s religion illuminates with His divine light.
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
