Things Composers Never Said

[Serial_Apologist]

I imagine Arnold would have written "Ooh cook" instead at this point in my score, standin' on 'is head, or summat" - Delius

[LeMartinPecheur]

Dear Johannes, Hugo and I are absolutely your most devoted fans! We were planning to call round today but Hugo has been unavoidably detained. Love, Peter Ilyich.

[Bryn]

Are you quite sure he never said that or something akin to it?(!)...

Absolutely. "I did one lesson on the street with Varèse, one lesson on the street. It lasted half a minute, it made me an orchestrator. He said, 'what are you writing now, Morton?' I told him. He says, 'make sure you think about the time it speaks from the stage to out there' ... And he walked away. That was my one lesson ... and from then on, I started to listen."

[Roehre]

I'll keep that cigar for tomorrow
A.Webern

those insects are harmless
A.Berg

I am really fond of my sisters-in-law
L.van Beethoven

Salieri is really a great composer
W.A.Mozart

I'll travel to Cambridge for that doctorate
J.Brahms

I'll marry you
Beethoven's Eternal Beloved

[Beef Oven!]

I'll keep that cigar for tomorrow
A.Webern

those insects are harmless
A.Berg

[AdamH]

"Neumes? Ni, these herbes from the Low Countries are chilling me out proper."
- Hildegard

"Parallel fourths? Are you mad?"
- Monteverdi

"More flute!"
- Mozart

"Oh no darling, if you want acid, the lemons are over there."
- Sorabji

"Aha, thank the Creator for these Parisers! I always pump it to the lasses in the same rhythm: dum-dee-diddledee, dum-dee-diddledee. It gets them going."
- Bruckner

[Roehre]

A lady in the organ loft? Never.
J.S.Bach

I really do think how you lot have to struggle with my music
L.v.Beethoven

That fortissimo no THAT loud; I can hear you!
L.v.Beethoven

I like the car horn. Another reason for a new Symphony
G.Mahler

[Daniel]

Can you get that bird off of Strictly to do me intro's? - Michael Finnissy

[french frank]

"More flute!"
- Mozart

[ahinton]

A lady in the organ loft? Never.
J.S.Bach

So no Anna Magdalena there, then?...

[ahinton]

Can you get that bird off of Strictly to do me intro's? - Michael Finnissy

Classic! Brilliant!

"Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS, for his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch": George Lloyd, 1938, having spent much time and energy in exploring this method of composing with twelve tones one for all and all for one equal to one another...

[Nick Armstrong]

Can you get that bird off of Strictly to do me intro's? - Michael Finnissy