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Ultra-Modern Composers

Lavoix says the flute-players of Lulli's day refused to play some of his passages owing to their being impossible to execute. What would they have said to those of Strauss? Truly we have travelled a long way from the lovely elegaic flute passages of Gluck; but have we excelled them?

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