Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.