Witold Lutosławski Quotes

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven quartet.

Witold Lutosławski

The collection of antiques which is a symphony orchestra belongs more properly to the past. A modern composer is forced to translate into the language of these old instruments what his imagination proposes to him in a form which has nothing in common with them.

Witold Lutosławski

One can create a masterpiece by using any means of expression, no matter how absurd, just as one can make a beautiful gesture lying at the edge, or even the bottom, of a precipice.

Witold Lutosławski

Witold Lutosławski

Witold Lutosławski

Born: January 25, 1913

Died: February 7, 1994 (aged 81)

Bio: Witold Roman Lutosławski was a Polish composer and orchestral conductor. He is one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the preeminent Polish musicians during his last three decades.

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