Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Igor Markevitch

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French composer Igor Markevitch.
Last updated on November 26, 2024.
Igor Markevitch

Igor Borisovich Markevitch was an avant-garde Russian Empire-born composer and conductor who studied and worked in Paris and became a naturalized Italian and French citizen in 1947 and 1982 respectively. He was commissioned in 1929 for a piano concerto by impresario Serge Diaghilev of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist. — © Igor Markevitch
Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.
We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.
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