Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.
- Felix Mendelssohn
Hear that, pretty girls? Take your requests elsewhere…Mendelssohn does what he wants.
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