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Excerpt from Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music
What still remains to be surpassed, is their form of expression and their freedom. Wagner, a Ger manic Titan, who touched our earthly horizon in orchestral tone-effect, who intensified the form of expression, but fashioned it into a system (music drama, declamation, leading-motive), is on this account incapable of further intensification. His category begins and ends with himself; first.
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