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.