Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Roger Sessions

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American composer Roger Sessions.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, teacher and musicologist. He had initially started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved further towards more complex harmonies and postromanticism, and finally the twelve-tone serialism of the Second Viennese School. Sessions' friendship with Arnold Schoenberg influenced this, but he would modify the technique to develop a unique style involving rows to supply melodic thematic material, while composing the subsidiary parts in a free and dissonant manner.

American - Composer | December 28, 1896 - March 16, 1985

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But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

Roger Sessions

Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.

Roger Sessions

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

Roger Sessions

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

Roger Sessions

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Roger Sessions

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