German Music, a Souther's Music, Is a Good Idea

There is still in France a pre-understanding and ready welcome for those rarer and rarely gratified men, who are too comprehensive to find satisfaction in any kind of fatherlandism. For them, Bise has made music, this latest genius, who has seen a new beauty and seduction; he has discovered a piece of the south in music. I hold that many precautions should be taken against German music. Such a southerner—a southerner not by origin but by belief — must also dream of it being freed from the influence of the north. A super-European music holds its own even in presence of the brown sunsets of the desert,. whose soul is akin