Ferruccio Busoni Quote

Compared with this art, Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is lukewarm lemonade.

On Alban Berg's Altenberg Lieder, Letter from Busoni to his wife, dated (Paris, le), 23. Jn. 1913, in Busoni: Briefe an seine Frau, ed. F. Schnapp (Erlenbach-Zürich/Leipzig: Rotapfel-Verlag, 1935), 279.