36 Quotes About Composers

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)

He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt)

The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station.(on Elgar)

All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine. (on Bach)

Whenever i find myself losing faith in humanity, i come back to the classical music. They are a great reminder that we are also able to produce beautiful things made out of strong and barely controllable emotions.

Arnold Schönberg, the inventor of atonal music, gave concerts which might not be comprehensible but were obviously important.

Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning Baroque 'opera seria'; however, paradoxically his personal obsession to obtain complete artistic freedom generated disastrous side-effects that eventually impeded the progress of opera in London.