Jacques Barzun Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: November 30, 1907 - October 25, 2012
Birthday: November 30
Death: October 25
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.
source: Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.54, University of Chicago Press
topic: Music, Names, Piano, Piano Playing, Piano Music, Playing Piano
