John G. Deacon wrote:

>Many years later whilst living in Paris we went in search of Delius' house
>...
>
>As we were leaving our hostess, who had been most gracious, remarked, "I
>can never understand why anyone should want to see where a composer lived
>and worked" - I have never been able to work out this unfathomably strange
>observation but have always assumed that music mean nothing to her at all.

Visiting Mozart's last home, in Vienna, taking in the little apartment, the
cramped looking rooms, I felt myself for the first, and I think only, time
smitten with the feeling of reverence, that I understand others feel when
visiting the site of the manger in Bethlehem or the other holy sites in the
middle east.

Walter Meyer