"In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz."

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“I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.”

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