18th century Quote by Cecilia Bartoli

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.

— Donna Leon

“Having considered Handel's tumultuous opera career and his first term at Covent Garden in the 1730s, perhaps we may dare to suggest he was…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so…

— George Ogilvie

“Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning Baroque 'opera…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the…

— Dave Brubeck

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of…

— Cecilia Bartoli

“It was Haydn and Mozart who really cracked the sonata, but it was Beethoven who reinvented it, just as he reinvented the symphony. Bach…

— Rachel Joyce

For years, my favorite composers had been Monteverdi and Bach. Then I began to rediscover the 19th century, see it from another perspective.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before…

— Rufus Wainwright

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play…

— Glenn Gould