When Leopold Stokowski was first appointed conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1912, he began to program his now famous orchestral transcriptions of the then almost forgotten J. S. Bach. After a concert, a female patron approached Stokowski and went on and on about what a great composer Bach was and wanted to know if he was still composing, to which Stokowski replied, "No madam, he is decomposing."
Max Reger's response to a music critic: “I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment, it will be behind me.”
Stravinsky on Vivaldi: “Vivaldi was a very boring man who wrote the same concerto over and over.”
Reputedly, Sibelius once said to Carl Nielsen, “Nielsen, your music will be remembered after Beethoven's has been forgotten...but not before then.”
Sir Malcolm Sargent was once asked what one had to know in order to play the cymbals. “Nothing,” he replied, “just when.”
Artur Schnabel: “You may find this hard to believe, but Igor Stravinsky has actually published in the papers the statement, 'Music, to be great, must be completely cold and unemotional'! And last Sunday, I was having breakfast with Arnold Schoenberg, and I said to him, 'Can you imagine that Stravinsky actually made the statement that music, to be great, must be cold and unemotional?' At this, Schoenberg got furious and said, 'I said that first!'”
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