Dear colleague, next sunday I will conduct Beethoven’s 5th at the Vienna Musikverein. There you will hear the correct tempo.
Florence Aylward
“undoubtedly one of the finest accompanist of the day”
Ludwig Thuille
Since his childhood and throughout his life Thuille was a close friend of Richard Strauss‘, who found him to be his superior in counterpoint.
Nadia Boulanger
If there is one thing of which I am certain, it is that my music is worthless.
Federico Mompou
I make music like this because art has reached its limits…my art is a return to the primitive…no, not even a return, it is to begin again.
Adolf Jensen
Was thought of his contemporaries to be „a second Schumann“.
Augusta Holmès
“Like children, women have no idea of obstacles, and their willpower breaks all barriers. Mademoiselle Holmès is a woman, an extremist.”
Joseph Marx
“The last great tonal composer.”
Wilhelm Peterson – Berger
Critique MUST be subjective-MUST be personal!
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Most famous for his comic operas, which until the first world war were very popular and among the most performed operas in the world.
Anton Rubinstein
My conclusion is that I am neither fish nor fowl – a pitiful individual.
Gabriel Pierné
Has a square with a little park on it named after him in Paris.
Hans Hermann Wenn es schlummert auf der Welt/ When the world is sleeping
When the world is sleeping
the angels come down from the heavens
Gustav Lewin Weihnacht / Christmas
Merry Christmas!
Amanda Maier Den sjuka flickans sång /The song of the sick maiden
Oh, when nothing more can save you
it is better to lie in silence
under a fir tree, finally in peace
Anton Rubinstein Verlust / Loss
I once had a nightingale…
Hector Panizza En Sourdine / Silently
Let’s unite our hearts, our souls,
and our senses in ecstasy
Hector Panizza Il pleure dans mon coeur / It rains in my heart
Il pleure dans mon cœur
Comme il pleut sur la ville
Vincent d’Indy Lied Maritime / Sea song
Far away the sun fades into the ocean
and the sea is calm and without movement
Vítezslava Kaprálová Smutny večer / Cold evening
Cold evening,
there in the silence is the weeping from long ago.
Erich Meyer-Helmund Rokoko-Liebeslied / Rococo lovesong
I’d love to come up to you, but I mustn’t risk it
Evil neighbours are on guard!
Charles Griffes Symphony in Yellow
An omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly
Emil Sjögren Tänd Stjärnor! / Light up the stars!
I want to dress my heart in mourning to dim its beat
Anton Rückauf Lockruf / Love’s calling
Then flee with your lover
Alone through the night.
Jenni Pinnock
Her song Bells in the Rain was composed especially for The Art Song Project.
Gustav Lewin
Sweet simple songs without simplicity.
Daron Hagen
Washing her hair Never pain to tell thy love Daron Hagen was born in Milwaukee in 1961 and has been a New Yorker since 1984. He taught himself to read …
Nikolai Medtner
Inspiration comes, where thought is saturated in emotion, and emotion is imbued with sense.
Charles Koechlin
At the evening of my life, I realize that the fulfillment of my artistic dreams, however incomplete, has given me the intimate satisfaction of not having wasted my time here on earth.
Wolfgang Mozart (jr)
„…his compositions are clear, melodious, skilfully made…the concert was one of the best we‘ve heard in a long time, but the concert hall was only half full…“
Eduard Lassen
“Somewhat sweet of taste…but in combination with Heine possessing an unforgettable sensitive irony of expression. One should try his compositions yet again.“
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
What I have sought to do, during my artistic evolution, has been to express myself with means always simpler and more direct, in a language always clearer and more precise.
Agathe Backer-Grøndahl
“(Grieg should be…) going down on his knees begging her to deliver him from his occasional vulgarity.”
Florence B. Price
The first African-American woman composer to earn national recognition.
Lars-Erik Larsson
swedish nationalistic neoclassical style to serial music
Toivo Ilmari Hannikainen
Professor at the Sibelius Academy.
Gustav Lewin Ich will meine Seele tauchen / I want to immerse my soul
I want to immerse my soul
into the cup of the lily
Scott Gendel Angels
Do I not deal with angels when her lips I touch?
Hans Hermann Wenn es schlummert auf der Welt/ When the world is sleeping
When the world is sleeping
the angels come down from the heavens
Gustav Lewin Weihnacht / Christmas
Merry Christmas!
Amanda Maier Den sjuka flickans sång /The song of the sick maiden
Oh, when nothing more can save you
it is better to lie in silence
under a fir tree, finally in peace
Anton Rubinstein Verlust / Loss
I once had a nightingale…
Hector Panizza En Sourdine / Silently
Let’s unite our hearts, our souls,
and our senses in ecstasy
Hector Panizza Il pleure dans mon coeur / It rains in my heart
Il pleure dans mon cœur
Comme il pleut sur la ville
Vincent d’Indy Lied Maritime / Sea song
Far away the sun fades into the ocean
and the sea is calm and without movement
Ellen Mandel Shy one (To an isle in the water)
She carries in the dishes,
And lays them in a row.
Ellen Mandel / Gray Room
I know how furiously your heart is beating.
Vítezslava Kaprálová Smutny večer / Cold evening
Cold evening,
there in the silence is the weeping from long ago.
Nicolai Medtner Frisch gesungen!
And some things I’ve experienced
made me silently very angry
but the next time I sang
all was well again
Wolfgang Mozart Jr Entzückung / Ecstasy
What heaven! Juliane flutters
through the tree-lined garden path!
Engelbert Humperdinck Wiegenlied/Lullaby
Drum schlaf nur, mein Liebling, schlaf selig und fest,
wie’s Lämmchen im Stall, wie der Vogel im Nest!
Eduard Lassen April
I would like to compose a song
just like this evening
And can not find a sound
as dark, mild and soft.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Am Teetisch / At the tea-table
They sat round the tea-table drinking,
And speaking of love a great deal;
The men of aesthetics were thinking,
The ladies more prone were to feel.
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Sommerabend/Summer evening
Dämmernd liegt der Sommerabend
Über Wald und grünen Wiesen
Adolf Jensen O, lass dich halten, gold’ne Stunde / O, please stay, golden hour!
I am your bliss, you my pleasure
I am your life, you my light:
what would day, what would sunlight bring?
Anton Rubinstein Du bist wie eine Blume / You are like a flower
…so fair and beautiful and pure
Anton Rubinstein Es hat die rose sich beklagt/The rose lamented
…that her fragrance, given to her by Spring,
vanish too fast
Felix Weingartner Liebesfeier / Celebration of Love
Blissful on their colorful songs
the larches rise to the sky
Ludwig Thuille Seliges Vergessen / Sweet Oblivion
The dream holds them down
and gives life back
the whispering of the leaves
Adolf Jensen Murmelndes Lüftchen, Blüthenwind / Murmuring Wind…
Sing a song with the leaves of the elm tree
for my sweet child is sleeping