Active Quote by Esa-Pekka Salonen

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Beethoven his thoughts moving at the speed of sound transforming emotion into music and for a moment it was like joy was a tangible…

— Shane Koyczan

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

“Powerful words harmonize heart and mind as if a symphony.”

— Toba Beta

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear…

— Virginia Graham

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

— Victor Borge

“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

There is just something about a symphony that moves my soul.

— Lorrie Morgan

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

— George Bernard Shaw

In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them. I can…

— John Tavener

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

— Andre Previn

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— Linda F. Radke