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27 06 2007

What comprises good performance?

Posted by: musicquotes, in Affect, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Composition, Hearing, Performance, Playing, Singing

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

13 03 2007

The Mozart Quintet is in my pocket

Posted by: musicquotes, in Composition, Henri Rabaud, Mozart, Music

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket. ~Henri Rabaud

13 03 2007

Who needs words?

Posted by: musicquotes, in Composer, Composition, Gustav Mahler, Music

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~Gustav Mahler

13 03 2007

I’ve composed all this already

Posted by: musicquotes, in Austria, Bruno Walter, Composition, Gustav Mahler

“Don’t bother to look, I’ve composed all this already.”
– Gustav Mahler, to Bruno Walter who had stopped to admire mountain scenery in rural Austria.

13 03 2007

Sow Piddles

Posted by: musicquotes, in Composition, Mozart

“I write [music] as a sow piddles.”
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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