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The Grand style (n.) originates when the beautiful carries off the victory over the monstrous.
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The Grand style (n.) shares with great passion that it disdains to please, forgets to persuade — it commands: to become master of the chaos one is and compel it to become form.
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The Grand style (n.) is the most intense form of the art of melody — the thing decadent taste is furthest from: the Palazzo Pitti has it, the Ninth Symphony does not.
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The Grand style (n.) is the expression of the will to power itself — the most feared instinct daring to unmask itself.
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The Grand style (n.) is a claim that any music today making it is either false to us or false to itself.