Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840 - 1893

How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject?
It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...

As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'

Peter Tchaikovsky