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Music as an Aristocratic Art
By Hector Berlioz (18031869)
From Berlioz’s Autobiography
D
RAMATIC art in the time of Shakespeare was more appreciated by the masses than it is in our day by those nations which lay most claim to possess a feeling for it. Music is essentially aristocratic; it is a daughter of noble race, such as princes only can dower nowadays; it must be able to live poor and unmated rather than form a
mésalliance.
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