The Musicians


      There is only one Bach! Only one Bach!
       -- Frederick the Great

 

                     Johann Sebastian Bach,
                      Old Father of Fugues

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For years I have avoided almost all society, because I cannot tell people I am deaf. I have to appear as a misanthrope; I, who am so little of one.
-- Beethoven



                  Ludwig Van Beethoven

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When I was very young, I used to say "I"; later on, I said "I and Mozart"; then "Mozart and I." Now  I say "Mozart."
-- Gounod

 

                        Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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He came not with an orchestral army, as great geniuses are wont to come. He possesses only a little cohort, but it belongs to him wholly and entirely, even to the last hero.
-- Schumann



                     Frédéric Chopin,
                     The Poet of the Piano

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Remember Handel? Who, that was not born Deaf as the dead to harmony, forgets, Or can, the 
more than Homer of his age?
-- Cowper


                 Georg Friedrich Handel:
                 The Maker of The Messiah 

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Sound -- immortal Music sound! Bid the golden Words go round! Every heart and tongue proclaim Haydn’s power, and Haydn’s fame!
-- Barry Cornwall


                   Francis Joseph Haydn

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Few instances can be found in history of a man so amply gifted with every good quality of mind and heart; so carefully brought up amongst good influences; endowed with every circumstance that would make him happy; and so thoroughly fulfilling his mission. Never perhaps could any man be found in whose life there were so few things to conceal and to regret.
-- Sir George Grove


       Felix Mendelssohn,
       Singer of the Songs Without Words

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Schubert, too, wrote for silence; half his work Lay like a frozen Rhine till summers came
That warned the grass above him. Even so His music lives now with a mighty youth.
-- George Eliot


                      Franz Schubert,
                      Master of the Lied

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Endeavour to play easy pieces well and beautifully; that is better than to play difficult pieces indifferently well. When you play, never mind who listens to you. Play always as if in the presence of a master.
-- Schumann



              Robert Schumann:
              Composer, Editor and Essayist