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Quotes from Studs Terkel — Alfred Brendel

1931–2025 Austria

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If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

Studs Terkel (2006)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred Brendel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.