Quote by Giacomo Puccini
. . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the viol

. . . colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances . . . . Is this not form? – Giacomo Puccini

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