Originally posted by Joy:
“Many assert that every minor piece must end in the minor. Nego! On the contrary I find that in the soft scales the major third at the close has a glorious and uncommonly quieting effect. Joy follows sorrow, sunshine-rain. It affects me as if I were looking up to the silvery glistering of the evening star.”
From Archduke Rudolph’s book of instruction.
“Many assert that every minor piece must end in the minor. Nego! On the contrary I find that in the soft scales the major third at the close has a glorious and uncommonly quieting effect. Joy follows sorrow, sunshine-rain. It affects me as if I were looking up to the silvery glistering of the evening star.”
From Archduke Rudolph’s book of instruction.
And in spite of his gloomy and eccentric personality he was an optimist!
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