Quote by Franz Liszt Download Open image “Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.” — Franz Liszt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Brahms is life-changing every time. And though I love him, I can't say that about Mompou. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini… — Carlo Grante Copy Share Image
I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version. — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying… — Hugo Wolf Copy Share Image
...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the… — Joseph Joachim Copy Share Image
Many people who don't like Rachmaninov's style consider the 'Rhapsody' his masterpiece. It's written fantastically well for orchestra and piano. He combines a lot… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
“I love you sometimes foolishly and at these moments I do not understand that I could not, would not, and should not be so… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
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