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For the writer's pianoforte is the dictionary, words are the material in which he works, and words may either strike the ear or be gathered by the eye from the printed page. The alternative will be called delusive, for, in European literature at least, there is no word-symbol that does not imply a spoken sound, and no excellence without euphony.
Give Liszt's conception of how Chopin developed one of his Valses. Have the possibilities of the art of musical composition been exhausted? Are other great schools of pianoforte playing likely to arise? What was Reisenauer's opinion of the works of MacDowell? What may be said of musical taste in America when Reisenauer was touring this country.
As a boy, every experience of this sort fired my imagination with ambition, and led to all sorts of noble resolutions, some of which, at any rate, were carried into execution. The deepest impression ever made on me by any work of art was at Munich, ten years ago, when I heard for the first time Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde," which I was already familiar with through the pianoforte score.
That casts a heap o' licht on't, my leddy I never saw an organ: what is 't like?" "Something like a pianoforte." "But I never saw ane o' them either. It's ill makin' things a'thegither oot o' yer ain heid." "Well, it's played with the fingers like this," said Florimel. "And the fugue is a kind of piece where one part pursues the other, "
The same remarks apply to musical people in general, whether in the shape of fiddlers, fluters, horn blowers, thumpers on the pianoforte, &c. These individuals can think of nothing else but their favourite pursuit, and imagine all the world to be equally interested in it. Take a musician off music, and he is the most ignorant of animals.
We began, therefore, with a pianoforte rehearsal, at which the master made a point of telling the singers what he wanted.
Pleyel asked Chopin what was to be done with the MSS. Chopin replied that they were to be distributed among his friends, that none were to be published, and that fragments were to be destroyed. Of the pianoforte school which Chopin is said to have had the intention to write, nothing but scraps, if anything, can have been found.
At present we are making a collection, a 'Library for Young People, in which we are publishing some easy pianoforte pieces. Could you 'simplify' the Carnival of Schumann, and arrange it for six and eight hands?" Christophe was staggered. "And you offer that to me, to me me...?" His naive "Me" delighted Kohn: but Hecht was offended.
The roofs of most of the buildings had fallen in; the window-frames, where spared by the fire, had been torn out; and a pianoforte, which lay on its back on the grass, showed evidence of having undergone an examination of its internal arrangements, with the aid of the butt-ends of muskets. "And this is the result of war!" muttered the young man, at last breaking silence.
And when we've got all the coal we want, and all the plush furniture, and pianofortes, and the rabbits are all stewed and eaten, and we're all warm and our bellies are filled and we're listening to the young lady performing on the pianoforte what then? What then, when you've made a real fair start with your material things?
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