Felix Mendelssohn Quotes
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Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.
Felix Mendelssohn
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Author Details:
Type:
Composer Quotes
Category:
German Composer Quotes
Date of Birth:
February 3, 1809
Date of Death:
November 4, 1847
Nationality:
German
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Related Authors:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johannes Brahms
Richard Wagner
Lukas Foss
Klaus Schulze
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Robert Schumann
Richard Strauss
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All Felix Mendelssohn Quotations:
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These seem to me so ambiguous...
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