Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Kaija Saariaho

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.

Last updated on October 6, 2024.

Kaija Anneli Saariaho is a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. During the course of her career, Saariaho has received commissions from the Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet and from IRCAM for the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the BBC, the New York Philharmonic, the Salzburg Music Festival, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and the Finnish National Opera, among others. In a 2019 composers' poll by BBC Music Magazine, Saariaho was ranked the greatest living composer.

Finnish - Composer | Born: October 14, 1952

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Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

Kaija Saariaho

I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an art form of the past, with expensive singers exposing their high notes, and bad theater, and ridiculous stories which don't concern us. But then little by little I realized that it can be defined very differently, that on the contrary opera can be something profound and not superficial - a wonderful meeting point for all the other arts.

Kaija Saariaho

When you travel from your own country to another country for a long period, you do become aware of the differences. For example, verbal expression is much more important in France - in Finland people don't speak so much. Also, Finnish people say things directly; that kind of direct honesty would be very impolite in France.

Kaija Saariaho

Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

Kaija Saariaho

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Kaija Saariaho

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