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"In order to give this phrase its proper rhythmic value, to express it clearly, plastically, there must be a very slight separation between the sixteenths and the eighth-note following them. This the bow picked up a trifle from the strings throws the sixteenths into relief. As I have already said, tone color is for the main part controlled by the bow.
The piece, in three sharps, opened on the tonic, yet the very first note in the bass was a G-sharp. Composer: "Of course. That makes it right. How could it be correct otherwise?" Another example. In the second bar a note which the editor had taken for an eighth-note was explained by the Composer as being a grace-note.
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