What are three of your favourite quotes about classical composers?

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Anything about Wagner, because I a love his music. I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient;whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide. - Mark TwainOne can't judge Wagner's opera 'Lohengrin' after a first hearingand I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time.

- Gioacchino Antonio RossiniParsifal is the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been running for three hours, you check your watch and it says 6:20. - David RandolphThere are many quotes about Wagner, I wonder why people don't like his music? .

Here they are: About Chopin: Hats off, gentlemen -- a genius! -- Robert Schumann, 1831 About Handel: Handel is so great and so simple that no one but a professional musician is unable to understand him. -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) and my favorite... About Gershwin: George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don't have to believe it if I don't want to.

-- John O'Hara (1937) Video Vladimir Horowitz playing Chopin's Waltz in C sharp minor, Opus 64-2. Video Beverly Sills in Handel's Guilio Cesare, singing the dazzling aria of "Da tempeste il legno infranto. " Video Leonard Bernstein plays Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue pt.

1/2 Video Leonard Bernstein plays Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, pt. 2/2 .

Satie, Mahler and Stravinsky in moments of humor, facing death and objectivity 1. Erik Satie speaks of Debussy's La Mer, which depicts the sea in the course of a day: "I particularly enjoyed the part at a quarter past eleven. " 2.

One moment Gustav Mahler was composing peacefully in his hut high in the Dolomites. The next moment, two birds-an eagle in pursuit of a crow-had burst in, shattering a window pane. According to the conductor Bruno Walter, Mahler sprang to his feet in horror at the intrusion and later felt deeply depressed about it."s musical heaven had been turned into a battlefield for one of the endless fights of all against all," Walter wrote in his memoir of the composer.

="Mysterious Mahler" by Jonathan Carr, Prospect Magazine, 8.991 http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=4489 3. Igor Stravinsky: "For I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc...." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky Sources: http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=4489 http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky athanasius's Recommendations Satie: Orchestral Works Amazon List Price: $8.99 Used from: $8.990 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 3 reviews) Satie: The Complete Solo Piano Music Amazon List Price: $50.98 Used from: $38.991 Average Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 3 reviews) Debussy: La Mer / Nocturnes / Jeux / Rhapsodie pour clarinette et orchestre - The Cleveland Orchestra / Pierre Boulez Amazon List Price: $18.990 Used from: $8.991 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 15 reviews) Mahler: Symphonies 8.990; Das Lied von der Erde Amazon List Price: $78.991 Used from: $38.990 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 11 reviews) Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Octet Amazon List Price: $18.991 Used from: $8.990 .

Tom Lehrer provides a good one. My all time favorite, from Tom Lehrer on his album "That Was the Year That Was" : "It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."

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I can only think of one right now... Of course, I don't believe this quote is accurate, and I can't remember who said it, but: "Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times and failed. " It's comical to say the least.

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I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.