#composer

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all? ↗

— Johannes Rau

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I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

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I feel very free and very happy to be a composer. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done. ↗

— David Amram

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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it. ↗

— Hanns Eisler

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A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography. ↗