Occupation: Composer Birth: April 1, 1873 Death: March 28, 1943
The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner.
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music tha….
The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make ….
My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands..
Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his technique is comprehens….
I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense e….
A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of a….
What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music….
Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music..
I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts..