"Asseverate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... composers. But he was a better craftsman than most of them are. He was a finer workman than Strauss, for instance. His scores are much more bony. They are free of the mass of insignificant detail that clutters so many of Strauss's. He could asseverate with some justice, "I have never written an insincere note." And although his orchestration is not revolutionary, and is often commonplace enough, he nevertheless oftentimes employed an instrumental palette ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld |
