“There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.”
By Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer
"I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony."
By Gyorgy Legeti , Hungarian composer
"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
By Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer
"If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder."
By Walter Damrosh,German composer and conductor, Talked about Aaron Copland, American composer
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."
By Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer
By Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer
"I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony."
By Gyorgy Legeti , Hungarian composer
"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
By Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer
"If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder."
By Walter Damrosh,German composer and conductor, Talked about Aaron Copland, American composer
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."
By Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer
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