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date: 21 January 2025

Artur Schnabel 1882–1951
Austrian-born pianist 

  1. Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.
    My Life and Music (1961)
  2. The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes—ah, that is where the art resides!
    in Chicago Daily News 11 June 1958
  3. Too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.
    of Mozart's sonatas
    Nat Shapiro (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Quotations about Music (1978); in My Life and Music (1961) Schnabel says: ‘Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes’