Gustav Kobbé > Quotes

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― Gustav Kobbé, The Complete Opera Book The Stories of the Operas, together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation

“With a musical work, no matter how intellectual or dramatic its foundation, its test ever will be its value as pure music.”
― Gustav Kobbé, How to Appreciate Music

“All art begins with a groping after form, then attains form, and then emancipates itself from too great insistence upon rigidity of form without, however, reverting to its early formless condition.”
― Gustav Kobbé, How to Appreciate Music