Robert Gottlieb Quotes

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.

'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta' is a kind of expansion of chamber music.

I love all types of music - jazz, great pop music, world music and folk music - but the music I listen to most is piano music from the 18th, 19th and 20th century. Russian music in particular.

Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.

Chopin is a great composer who influenced many, many important composers. He was a great innovator, especially in harmony.

My grandmother got me recordings of the 'Goldberg Variations,' in addition to the 'Brandenburg Concertos,' the Mozart string quartets and Beethoven's 'Seventh Symphony.'

A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin.