“Knowledge of instrumentation should be acquired through experience. Instrumental composition should be conceived instrumentally, imagining and hearing a particular orchestra for each particular and diverse musical condition of the mind.”

— Francesco Balilla Pratella

Source: Technical Manifesto of Futurist Music (1911), p. 82

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Italian composer 1880–1955

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