Beth Hart

I have no idea what was the first record I ever bought, but I think I asked my mom to buy me... um... a collection of Beethoven when I was a little girl because I became very addicted to his music. It might have been piano sonatas.

American Musician

Samuel Beckett

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

Irish Playwright

Diane Kruger

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

German Model

Simon Rattle

Some of my favorite music in the world is Haydn. I had a sabbatical one year and made myself one promise: to play a different Haydn piano sonata each day - they are inexhaustible treasures.

English Musician

Samuel Barber

As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.

American Composer

Neil Sedaka

My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.

Stephen Hough

I didn't want to look back in 10 or 20 years and say, 'Yes, I always wanted to write that piano sonata or that novel, but I never had time.

British Composer

Caroline Shaw

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

American Journalist

Alexander Scriabin

My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.

Russian Composer

A sonata is often associated with classical music, not pop or rock.

Classical Genre

Sonatas are typically instrumental, without vocals or lyrics.

Instrumental Focus

A sonata usually has multiple movements, each with distinct character.

Structured Parts

 extended forms and surprising instrumentations. The first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth uses a Classical sonata form, in which a central musical idea is explored, developed, and repeated in an altered manner. Within these parameters, he explores a simple idea with incredible depth.

The secrets of the...

 everything she has to say. Mixed in with chirping sonatas from high above is the constant thud of a machete chopping trees. Shakira's habitat in Colombia is being cut down, piece by piece, and if we don't work to protect the critically endangered cotton-top tamarin,

How to speak monkey: The...

 between the strings. Things you just find lying around, like screws, tape and rubber erasers. So now, you've transformed the piano from a tonal instrument with high and low pitches into a collection of unique sounds. The music you're hearing is Cage's "Sonata V,"

What silence can teach...

 instruments made the age of the virtuoso possible this is when those big forms arose the symphonies the sonatas the concertos and these big architectures of time composers like Beethoven could share the insights of a lifetime a piece

Music and emotion...

 made the age of the virtuoso possible. This is when those big forms arose -- the symphonies, the sonatas, the concertos. And in these big architectures of time, composers like Beethoven could share the insights of a lifetime.

Michael Tilson Thomas:...

 it was absolutely phenomenal what comes next is a career that alters history music seems to pour out of mozart symphonies operas concertos string quartets piano sonatas and more unlike beethoven and other brilliant

The Secret of Musical...

 why movies are able to take us onto extraordinary adventures; why we believe Romeo when he says he loves Juliet; and why single notes of music, when played together, become a sonata and conjure up meaning.

The magic of truth and...

 And maybe that sounds depressing to you, but this state of mind, this longing, is actually the deep source of all our moonshots and our loves. It's because of longing that we play "Moonlight Sonatas"

The Hidden Power of Sad...

 Well, I propose a direct test. Let us attempt to read out memories from connectomes. Consider the memory of long temporal sequences of movements, like a pianist playing a Beethoven sonata.

Sebastian Seung: I am my...

 I work in lots of sonatas in caves the North day is basically a flooded cave