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Michael Tippett

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Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.


— Michael Tippett


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Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.


— Michael Tippett


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Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.


— Michael Tippett


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I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.


— Michael Tippett


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I think we're all pretty odd.


— Michael Tippett


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I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.


— Michael Tippett


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I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.


— Michael Tippett


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Music is a performance and needs the audience.


— Michael Tippett


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Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.


— Michael Tippett


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Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.


— Michael Tippett


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His influence can be seen principally in the symphonies and chamber works. These eighteen months were probably the most formative in the composer's life. A less favourable reception was given to his last opera New Year.

His deeply held humanitarian and pacifist beliefs shaped both his life and his music: he served a prison sentence as a conscientious objector in the Second World War. The libretti of his operas which he wrote himself attracted criticism for their allusion-heavy complexity and sometimes awkward and not quite idiomatic use of contemporary slang but have also received praise from amongst others noted music critic Andrew Porter the director Peter Hall and conductor Colin Davis. Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer.

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