I’ve been listening—over and over—to Jean Sibelius’s “Voces Intimae,†his String Quartet in D-minor. The great Finnish composer (1865-1957) wrote it in 1909 when he was 44 years old. He had completed his Third Symphony and was well on his way out of the romanticism that … [Read more...]
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Compatible Quotes: Jean Sibelius
If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has … [Read more...]