This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in … - Charles Gounod
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in …
- Charles Gounod
If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid. - Charles Gounod
If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.
Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium. - Charles Gounod
Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them - Charles Gounod
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them
My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein. - Charles Gounod
My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.
Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance a… - Charles Gounod
Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance a…
Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, bu… - Charles Gounod
Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, bu…
Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair. - Charles Gounod
Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.
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