Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem. Elliott Carter challengeorchestraproblem Change image and share on social
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece. Elliott Carter celloinstrumentmake Change image and share on social
I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college. Elliott Carter charlecollegefairly share on social
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me. Elliott Carter bearentirehave share on social
An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments. Elliott Carter actauditoryinstrument Change image and share on social
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. Elliott Carter americaeuropematerialistic Change image and share on social
The Quartets have been a major part of my work. Elliott Carter majorpartquartet Change image and share on social
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are. Elliott Carter badbigbrahm share on social
I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public. Elliott Carter contemporaryeducationeurope Change image and share on social
Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there. Elliott Carter barberendhotel Change image and share on social
