Music Historian

🇫🇷Albert Schweitzer

Philosophy

1921–2023

"Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others."

🇺🇸Charles Rosen

Music

1927–2012

"Sonata form could not be defined until it was dead. Czerny claimed with pride around 1840 that he was the first to describe it, but then it was already part of history."

Barry Mazor

Journalism

"“Celine Dion is investing primary narcissism with a voice"

🇺🇸Nat Hentoff

Journalism

1925–2017

"I'm always intrigued at how few people understand that free speech encompasses a little more than the speech you like."

🇬🇧Charles Burney

Music

1726–1814

"The umbrage given to Cuzzoni by her coming hither, proves that as Turkish monarchs can bear no brother near the throne, an aspiring sister is equally obnoxious to a theatrical Queen."

🇺🇸Greil Marcus

Music

b. 1945

"Obsessive Memories," essay on memory and his father, Greil Gerstley, who died in World War II."

🇬🇧Eric Blom

Music

1888–1959

"In future editions many of those who may die in the meantime will, of course, be added. All the same, it is hoped that this announcement will not start an immediate wave of suicide among singers and players."