If I now record this, I add one thing and then another, according to the counterpoint, the sound of the different instruments etc.

That heats up my soul if I am not disturbed; it becomes larger and larger, and I keep expanding it further and lighter, and the thing truly becomes almost finished in my head, even if it is long, so that I can then see it in my mind with one glance as it were, and I don’t hear it one after the other as it came in my imagination, but as if all at once.

All this finding and making, happens inside me like a wonderful strong dream. But listening to all of it, everything together, is best of all.”