When I am asked, What do you think of our audience I answer, I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.

Arthur Schnabel

Artur Schnabel (April 17, 1882 - August 15, 1951) was an Austrian classical pianist, who also composed and taught. Schnabel was renowned for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding anything resembling pure technical bravura. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, whose vitality, profundity and spiritual penetration in his playing of works by Beethoven and Schubert, in particular, have seldom if ever been surpassed

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