Virtuoso

🇭🇺Franz Liszt

Music

Romantic music

1811–1886

"Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny."

🇩🇪Johann Sebastian Bach

Music

Baroque music

1685–1750

"I have this to say about Bach's works: Listen, play, love, revere — and keep your trap shut."

Antonín Dvořák

Music

Romantic music

1841–1904

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression – at least, not in the beginning – and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap."

🇺🇸Sergei Rachmaninoff

Music

Romanticism

1873–1943

"I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me."

🇫🇷Frédéric Chopin

Music

Romantic music

1810–1849

"Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art."