Quotes on the great classical pieces.

[Ludvig_Van_Me]

I want to read quotes from people on the great classical pieces.


Is there a site for this?


I have found this:

Lenin on beethoven's 'appassionata' 
"I know nothing that is greater than the appassionata, I would like to listen to it everyday, it is marvelous superhuman music"

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Lenin on beethoven's 'appassionata' 
"I know nothing that is greater than the appassionata, I would like to listen to it everyday, it is marvelous superhuman music"

Yeah, later it turned out that Isai Dobrovein was actually performing for Lenin... "Pathetique".
Definitely Mr. Lenin's knowledge of music  was not that wast, as he 'managed' to confuse two quite... hm... popular pieces. Although I am strongly against of giving names to works other than composers put in titles, I am wondering how come Communist party did not swap the names for these Sonatas. But it is already completely different topic, I guess.

[Ludvig_Van_Me]

Really!?

That is terrific! The pathetique is my favourite piece(that I can play)......Now I wonder what Lenin would have said about the real Appassionata?



Anyone know of any other quotes.

[Ludvig_Van_Me]

I have found the full quote:


"I know nothing that is greater than the Appassionata
       I'd like to listen to it every day It is marvelous superhuman music. I
       always think with pride--perhaps it is naive of me--
       what marvelous things human beings can do!

       "But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your
       nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things, and
       stroke the heads of people who could create such
       beauty while living in this vile hell. And now you
       must not stroke anyone's head: you might get your
       hand bitten off. You have to hit them on the head,
       without any mercy, although our ideal is not to use
       force against anyone.

       "Hm, hm, our duty is infernally hard."




What a pleb!

[dlu]

I have found the full quote:


"I know nothing that is greater than the Appassionata
       I'd like to listen to it every day It is marvelous superhuman music. I
       always think with pride--perhaps it is naive of me--
       what marvelous things human beings can do!

       "But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your
       nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things, and
       stroke the heads of people who could create such
       beauty while living in this vile hell. And now you
       must not stroke anyone's head: you might get your
       hand bitten off. You have to hit them on the head,
       without any mercy, although our ideal is not to use
       force against anyone.

       "Hm, hm, our duty is infernally hard."




What a pleb!

So, according to Lenin, we're all head strokers (what ever that means...uhum...).

[dlu]

I want to read quotes from people on the great classical pieces.


Is there a site for this?


I have found this:

Lenin on beethoven's 'appassionata' 
"I know nothing that is greater than the appassionata, I would like to listen to it everyday, it is marvelous superhuman music"

I have a bunch of quotes from critics on Schoenberg if you want them. Let me know and I'll post some of them.

[rohansahai]

I have a bunch of quotes from critics on Schoenberg if you want them. Let me know and I'll post some of them.

Please do!

[dlu]

"Schoenberg's Opus in not merely filled with wrong notes but is itself a fifty-minute long protracted wrong note."

"Schoenberg's music is the reproduction of the sounds of nature in their crudest forms"

"The endless discords, the constant succesion of unnatural sounds, baffle description"

"...the most ear-splitting combination of tones that ever desecrated the walls of a music hall"

"The Schoenberg piece combines the best sound effect of a hen yard at feeding time, a brinsk morning in Chinatown, and practice hour at a busy conservatory"

"New exquisitely horrible sounds...the very extasy of the hideous...The aura of Arnold Schoenberg if the aura of original depravity, of subtle ugliness, of basist egoism, of hatred and comtempt, of cruelty and of the mystic grandiose."

That's all for now. I have tons more quotes, from Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anectdotes, I suggest you get it, another book of the sort, or search on the web for music criticism/music anecdotes/composer anecdotes ect...
DLu

[rohansahai]

Oh my god! That was really appreciative!