But that some sonatas of Beethoven are written tragic no one can gainsay; yet they can triumph or despair as the player decides, and Lucy had decided that they should triumph.
Quotes about sonatas (6 Quotes)
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
As a small boy I had read about Beethoven in the Book of Knowledge, now I was listening enraptured to his sonatas and symphonies.
The sonatas of Mozart are unique they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.
Interview, 26-June-2000, with Daniel Jaffe ... a writer and Reviews Editor for Classic CD, the British classical music magazine. ... what is remarkable, though, is that he not only suggested that jazz was a worthwhile form of music to study, but he also praised authentic American jazz ...... the implications of Prokofiev's enthusiasm for jazz ... The strange colours of the so-called 'American' Overture, for instance, with its honky-tonk piano sound and predominant brass and woodwind colours sounds to me like a 'take' on the sound of a jazz combo, though not using its rhythmic style. Jazzy harmonies unmistakably appear in Romeo and Juliet and in his so-called 'War' sonatas. Basically it's a ... subtle and subliminal influence. . Prokofiev took opportunities to hear jazz during his many tours through the States certainly he brought plenty of jazz records back to Russia.
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recap