Great Quote by Krzysztof Penderecki

Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.

— John Petrucci

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

— Rafal Blechacz

Chopin was the first piano composer who knew exactly how to make piano sound reach fullness, radiance and grandness. What to regard and what,…

— Frederic Chopin

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the…

— Dave Brubeck

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's…

— Frederic Chopin

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a…

— Andris Nelsons

“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

It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the music he has written. Then,…

— Vladimir Horowitz

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

— Michel Hazanavicius

Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery of the…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

— Mary MacLane

I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because…

— Andris Nelsons