You request me to tell you…if it is true that the creed of all who profess to love high and serious art is: "There is no God but Bach, and Mendelssohn is his prophet"?
• "Premier Voyage en Allemagne", Quatrième lettre, p. 285
• "Premier Voyage en Allemagne", Quatrième lettre, p. 285
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Vous me priez de vous dire…S'il est vrai que l'acte de foi de tout ce qui prétend aimer l'art élevé et sérieux soit celui-ci : "Il n'y a pas d'autre Dieu que Bach, et Mendelssohn est son prophète"?
— Hector Berlioz
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Vous me priez de vous dire…S'il est vrai que l'acte de foi de tout ce qui prétend aimer l'art élevé et sérieux soit celui-ci : "Il n'y a pas d'autre Dieu que Bach, et Mendelssohn est son prophète"?" in the context of "You request me to tell you…if it is true that the creed of all who profess to love high and serious art is: "There is no God but Bach, and Mendelssohn is his prophet"?
• "Premier Voyage en Allemagne", Quatrième lettre, p. 285" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Hector Berlioz" (Quotes, Mémoires (1870): French quotations are cited from the online edition at www.hberlioz.com; English quotations and page-numbers from Eleanor Holmes, Rachel Holmes and Ernest Newman (trans.) Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865 (New York: Dover, 1966).)
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About Hector Berlioz
Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11 1803 – March 8 1869) was a French composer, conductor and music critic, widely seen as the greatest representative in music of the French Romantic school.
About Hector Berlioz
Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11 1803 – March 8 1869) was a French composer, conductor and music critic, widely seen as the greatest representative in music of the French Romantic school.
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