The Quartets have been a major part of my work.
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These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.Elliott Carter
Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
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Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
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Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
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