"The Northern idea of form is more of……" — Esa-Pekka Salonen
"The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius."
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Esa-Pekka Salonen
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38 Quotes by Esa-Pekka Salonen
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I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we…
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The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss.…
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As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather…
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Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the…
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I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
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I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some…
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I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from…
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I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
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I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.
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I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
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I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
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Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.
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