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One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.
– Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality
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Mozart : Requiem in D K. 626 – Orchestre national de France / James Gaffigan – Confutatis/Lacrimosa
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Music, Schopenhauer wrote, is not unconscious arithmetic, as Leibniz had claimed, but unconscious philosophy, since in music the inner essence of the world, which is will, is made directly present to the mind.
– Roger Scruton, The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung
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Dispatches from the Asylum 