This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy. — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid. — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium. — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
