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¹³ ‘[er] hatte ihnen gegenöber eine fast mystische Haltung; sie waren för ihn wie eine heilige Schrift, vom Geiste der Inspiration diktiert’. See Kolisch, , ‘Interpretationsprobleme bei Schoenberg’, Musiktheorie 3 (2009): 275Google Scholar.

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