Masterpiece Quote by Itzhak Perlman

My grandmother got me recordings of the 'Goldberg Variations,' in addition to the 'Brandenburg Concertos,' the Mozart string quartets and Beethoven's 'Seventh Symphony.'

— Chris Thile

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

“It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners to the…

— Marcel Proust

I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff.

— Justin Chancellor

My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't…

— Clive James

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

— Neville Marriner

I love listening to things like those wonderful piano pieces of Stockhausen. It's just not my thing as a composer or performer, and thank…

— Stephen Hough

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing…

— Michael Hersch

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

— Evelyn Glennie

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

— Andre Previn

My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.

— Neil Sedaka

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