“With the Beethoven sonata project, the emphasis was principally on the music, although Schnabel was considered its greatest exponent.”
Charles Rosen
“My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.”
Alexander Scriabin
“There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.”
Dejan Stojanovic
“You played very well but I would like you to take the Fourth Sonata of Beethoven and figure it out for yourself.”
Leonard Rose
“People own the 'Moonlight' Sonata. Their children were conceived to it, and it's difficult to find anybody in Western society who doesn't have a personal relationship to that. You put [that widely known] a song on, and you start dancing to it, you are going to collide with people's own lives and own stories, and we are very interested in that.”
Danial Shapiro
“I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.”
Sergei Prokofiev
“Today, Schubert's sonata is a vagabond piece that's been adopted by everyone.”
Corbin Johnston
