I wish that every young man when he begins to write music would not concern himself with being a melodist, a harmonist, a realist, an idealist or a f… - Giuseppe Verdi

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I wish that every young man when he begins to write music would not concern himself with being a melodist, a harmonist, a realist, an idealist or a futurist or any other such devilish pedantic things. Melody and harmony should be simply tools in the hands of the artist, with which he creates music; and if a day comes when people stop talking about the German school, the Italian school, the past, the future, etc., etc., then art will perhaps come into its own.