On the recordJanuary 1, 1852
The music of modern Europe ranks with the transcendent creations of human genius; the poetry, the statues, the temples, of Greece.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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gutenberg.orgBenjamin Disraeli: “The music of modern Europe ranks with the transcendent creations of human genius; the poetry, the statues, the temples…”
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In his biography of Lord George Bentinck, he compares the artistic merit of modern European music to the classical Greek arts.
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