Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by George Szell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Hungarian composer George Szell.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

George Szell, originally György Széll, György Endre Szél, or Georg Szell, was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer. He is widely considered one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors. He is remembered today for his long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra of Cleveland, Ohio, and for the recordings of the standard classical repertoire he made in Cleveland and with other orchestras.

Hungarian - Composer | June 7, 1897 - July 29, 1970

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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.

George Szell

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

George Szell

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

George Szell

Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

George Szell

Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.

George Szell

When words fail, the guitar speaks.

George Szell

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by George Szell

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