It has happened more than once that a composition has come to me, ready-made as it were, between the demands of other work.
Josef Bohuslav Foerster
Czech national artist
Arturo Toscanini
He actually composed a bit in his youth.
Ture Rangström
It was the word, the ardent word of the poet, that aroused my remorseless desire to compose.
Gustav Lewin
Sweet simple songs without simplicity.
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.
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.
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.
Herbert Hughes
Folk song collector from Belfast.