Composers' Personalities

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

David Randolph ponders the idea of personality in music: How much of a composers' personality appears in his/her work?

Excerpt from Symphony No. 5, by Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky
Ave verum corpus, by Josquin des Pres
Excerpt from Piano Concerto No. 4, by Ludwig Van Beethoven
Excerpt from Piano Concerto No. 3, by Béla Bartók
Excerpt from String Quartet in G minor, Op. 161, by Franz Schubert

Abrupt ending.

Bidu Sayão interview at Metropolitan Opera intermission, broadcast January 4, 1984.

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