Composer Quote by Ludwig van Beethoven

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important…

— Cecilia Bartoli

I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.

— Donna Leon

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play…

— Glenn Gould

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

— Leonard Bernstein

I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down…

— Charles Bukowski

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

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as…

— Anonymous

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from…

— Milton Babbitt

Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with…

— Robert Schumann

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on…

— Isaac Mizrahi

“History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music.”

— Michael P. Naughton