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32 quotes by Daniel Barenboim

Website www.danielbarenboim.com Daniel Barenboim (German: [baːrənboim], Hebrew: דניאל ברנבוים; born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine pianist and conductor. Currently, he is general music director of La Scala in Milan, the Berlin State Opera, and the Staatskapelle Berlin; he previously served as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de Paris. Barenboim is also known for his work with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra,...
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto... →

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Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of... →

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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she... →

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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to... →

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It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the... →

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Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in... →

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