“Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity. … There is nothing more musical than a sunset.”

As quoted in The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (1996) by Don Michael Randel
Context: Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity. … There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little — the book of Nature.

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French composer 1862–1918

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