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. . . To me, a symphonic work
must be built logically,
without the possibility of interjecting the slightest anecdotal element
between its different parts. I repeat: one must give the impression of
a composition in which all is linked, the image of a predetermined structure.
It has been said that architecture is frozen music. I should rather say
that it is a geometry in time. Here, as elsewhere, one must be very exacting,
so as to achieve an absolute equilibrium. If certain composers were the
architects of their own houses, or builders of their own motor-cars, they
would long ago have been reduced to rubbish!
Arthur Honegger
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