Quotes
- When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.
- Klaus-Gunther Wesseling (1998). "Hans Hinrich Wendt". In Bautz, Traugott (in German). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). 13. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 752–754. ISBN 3-88309-072-7. http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/w/wendt.shtml.
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