Articles Quote by Eduard Hanslick

Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause;…

— Frederic Chopin

I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.

— Andre Rieu

I think that the first World War put an end the kind of music that Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss were writing. A change…

— Julian Bream

Where would I be without Johann Strauss's beautiful 'Blue Danube?' Without this piece of music I wouldn't be the man I am today. It's…

— Andre Rieu

I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their…

— Jessye Norman

Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

— Candy Crowley

I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

— Candy Crowley

“Even before the First World War there was a strain in European art and music – in Germany more than anywhere – that was…

— Douglas Murray

“The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.”

— Charles Emmerson

I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their intelligence. They…

— Matt Bellamy

That excitement about Kossuth, consider how characteristic, but superficial, it was!--only another kind of politics or dancing. Men were making speeches to him all…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Composers were warned not to strain the attention of their audience, as though we had not at our disposal different degrees of attention, among…

— Marcel Proust