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Gambara

Gambara
Honoré de BalzacOriginal title Gambara (French, 1837)

Gambara is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1837 in the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris at the request of its editor Maurice Schlesinger. It is one of the Études philosophiques of La Comédie humaine.

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“Tone is light in another shape. In music, instruments perform the functions of the colours employed in painting.”

Honoré de Balzac book Gambara

Gambara (1837)

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