Quotes About Composer

Theatre is an actor's medium though behind the stage there is a playwright, director and perhaps in some, a music composer too, yet the actor is the one who ultimately tells the story to the viewers.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Shostakovich and another composer banged out trashy songs on the piano while people danced in the corridor.

A symphony is built not just by the composer, the conductor, and the musicians, but by the audience. The wartime audience heard the approach of the German Wehrmacht. A more recent post-Soviet audience wants to hear the cruel antics of Stalin and believe that Shostakovich was speaking in code.

the surprised bookseller, whose name (inexplicably) was Mendelssohn. He was no relation to the German composer, and this Mendelssohn either overliked his last name or disliked his first so much that he never revealed it. (When Ted had once asked him his first name, Mendelssohn had said only: Not Felix.)

Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor—

Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

God is the Composer. Your life is His musical score. God is the Artist. Your life is His canvas. God is the Architect. Your life is His blueprint. God is the Writer. You are His book. God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him; God is also great because nothing is too small.

It's so legato it's difficult to splice. Sibelius was famous for that.

In the Belgian backwaters, south of Bruges, there lives a reclusive English composer, named Vyvyan Ayrs. You won't have heard of him because you're a musical oaf, but he's one of the greats.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

Her mind felt loud, like a Sturm und Drang symphony, as if the ghost of a German composer was trapped inside her mind, conjuring chaos and intensity.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

It was a dance. Or would be, if the composer and the musicians were all mad, and the ballroom was a sodden grave.

This aggressive gendering of creativity renders it highly exclusionary, as reflected in Clara Schumann's belief that women should not even wish to compose. Equally it genders the sense of identification with the composer that was central to the classical star culture.

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

A study of Handel's operas and other dramatic works in addition to the undramatic and hence atypical Messiah will disclose a Handel largely unknown: a composer with a remarkable sense for dramatic human character. He saw men and women where others have seen only historical-mythical busts.

A composer is not a note in his symphony, but if you have the capacity to hear the symphony and not just individual notes, the symphony bears testimony to the composer and gives meaning to each note. If you specialize in a note, you may never hear the symphony.