Biographies Quote by Dmitri Shostakovich

It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to…

— Daniel Barenboim

When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going on historically…

— Helene Grimaud

To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.

— Gustav Mahler

I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel…

— Stephen Hough

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the…

— Robert Hall

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

— Pierre Boulez

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

— Leonard Bernstein

“You should all know how to read music. It's as basic to understanding the composer's reaction as knowing how to read words on a…

— Jennifer Laurens

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later…

— Igor Stravinsky

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

— David Del Tredici

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's…

— Frederic Chopin

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

— Gyorgy Ligeti