"Every connoisseur of music and its output knows... Michael Haydn, as a composer of sacred music, has to be counted amongst the first-rate composers."
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“One of his talents was his ability to get on with anyone, including the royal family — whom he wasn't at all fazed by.”
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“The spirit of enquiry… investigating how and why one does anything is really the spirit of the orchestra.”
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“There's a quote where they say the most eminent soloist is Maria Anna von Berchtold zu Sonnenburg, Mozart's sister, who traveled widely in Europe when she was a child.”
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“To live in Vienna, you have the occasion to go to the original places. You can hear the music at the place where it was performed. You can stand in the same place where Beethoven conducted.”
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“I examined the character for the piece and some details — of the melody, of the rhythm — point out that this piece is some kind of a Ländler: a South German or Austrian dance of that time.”
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“But many of his songs which came from an incredibly personal place… he always wrote these songs because they were reflecting some personal thing he was going through.”
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“I think we have no limits to any kind of music. We have sung very modern music. We have sung a very classical music and we have sung Renaissance music.”
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“That was such a success — that people were totally wild about it — they had to do a second, a third, and a fourth concert.”
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“…during Mozart's lifetime, the main focus was to keep the lightness of the key touch of the harpsichord and combine it with a hammer action which reacts like in the clavichord. The pianists expected the lightness of the action.”
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“The song was so simple in tuning, and they could just join in. That's why it's translated into so many dialects.”
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“…she trained so hard with them, that they didn't have to look out of the window. They could focus on the music. It was a way of surviving, not thinking all the time what was going on outside.”
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“When I go and give a master class, I’m almost never telling anybody what to do. I’m always telling them what to read.”
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“It’s the idiomatic use of the instrument which is so charming with Schubert or any of these composers.”
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“We can see in the Mozart sonatas, in the Haydn sonatas how they really took a maximum from this instrument. Beethoven goes one step further.”
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“It was not too complicated to have a conversation for Haydn together with the Prince of Wales or the king and queen.”
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“Haydn had this kind of wit and also humor. You can feel it in his compositions when you hear the music.”
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“The letter itself was one of the most passionate letters ever written.”
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