top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts."
Standard
Customized
More
"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Composers are always going back to the past."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter."
Work
"Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work."
Work
"I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity."
Curiosity
"Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself."
Life
"With creative people, truly new horizons open up."
People
"What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out."
Nothing
"But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow."
Today
"In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic."
Romantic
"When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start."
Performance
"Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing."
America
bottom of page