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Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water.
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Cecil Gray Sibelius: The Symphonies (London: Oxford University Press, 1935) p. 56.
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Of his Symphony No. 6 (1923).

 

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