Excerpt from The Tonal Scale in Harmony: Modern Chords Explained, With Musical Examples From the Works of C. Debussy, Richard Strauss and Granvill Bantock
If composers had awaited on theory to justify their methods the greatest works would never have existed. Theory has always lagged behind, timidly far to the rear of practice; only in fact by disregarding the former have the boldest creative spirits achieved epoch-making work. It was common knowledge in his time that Purcell was a blundering experimenter, Bach did not write correct fugue, Beethoven perpetrated ugly progressions, Wagner was a charlatan, Richard Strauss was and remains to many a danger-signal, and Claude Debussy a nightmare.
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