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. . . Adversaries have called
me a constructor, an
engineer, an architect, even a mathematician—not to flatter
me—because
of my method of composing with twelve tones. In spite of knowing my Verklärte
Nacht and Gurrelieder, though some people like these works because
of the emotionality, they called my music dry and denied me spontaneity.
They pretended that I offered the products of a brain, not of a heart.
Arnold Schoenberg
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