“I have become a musician, a musician of the future in the second higher degree. Away with the old, stiff, dry staff! Outdated, outdated, outdated stuff — I need a new, spiritualized, lively means of expression for my new, unimagined thoughts — whether it's sounds, images or the devil knows what, it doesn't matter — I have achieved the unbelievable. The enclosed sonata, dedicated to Mr Joachim, is a telling proof. He confesses that he is incapable of playing it — this wizard on the violin!”
In Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868), cats climb, tumble, and nap across the lines of stave and clef, producing a sonata for violins in 3/4 and 12/8 time.
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