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He was an artist in the most profound Sense of the word

Danzi is considered the forerunner of musical romanticism

the notes that he brings to paper amass with the sole desire to express… an emotion

at a time when I needed to reinforce my language while maintaining a rigorous but distant approach of a sort of aesthetic apriori declaration

perhaps means that their interpretation of these songs of the “folk” is in fact close to the old

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