M use and inspiration. Conversations with Brahms, Strauss, Puccini, Humperdinck, Bruch and Grieg

The creative process is a mixture of ethnic t, understanding, willpower, gift of imagination, fantasy, determination, ardent desire. And no matter how good the execution, there will be no composition that lasts si is not inspired. Inspiration, quan it comes, is of a subtlety and finesse that eludes all classification, it is an awakening, an activation of all human faculties.