36 Quotes About Composers
- Author Robert Schumann
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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.
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- Author Shannon L. Alder
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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.
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- Author Igor Stravinsky
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He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)
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- Author Clara Schumann
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He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt)
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- Author Thomas Beecham
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The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station.(on Elgar)
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- Author Arnold Bax
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All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine. (on Bach)
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- Author Efrat Cybulkiewicz
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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.
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- Author Eva Ibbotson
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Arnold Schönberg, the inventor of atonal music, gave concerts which might not be comprehensible but were obviously important.
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- Author E.A. Bucchianeri
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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.
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