#tbf also Gustav Holst but he didn't mention him here

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I started to look into classical music and people like Philip Glass. From listening to stuff, I found out that I didn’t really like the “proper classical” stuff from around 1750, like Mozart and all that. But with Philip Glass, his music has a lot of mystery.

That was my introduction to discovering that side of music, the kind of abstract nature of music that has no lyrics and no title.

With Rachmaninoff, Lizst, and Chopin, there’s a mystery to the music, it’s much more abstract and much more able to stimulate your imagination, I think. For me, that was something I had never discovered in music. I was about 19 or 20 by then.

Matt Bellamy, on his classical influences | "Innocence And Absolution", Keyboard Magazine, June 2005

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