Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the… — 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
