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And here, for once in her life, Beatrice was perfectly agreed with her grandmamma, and she came to life again, and sat forward to join in the universal condemnation of waltzes and polkas that was going on round the table.
Thus, although comprising thoughts that in beauty and grandeur equal I would almost say surpass-anything Chopin has written, the work stands, on account of its pathological contents, outside the sphere of art. The bright brilliancy and light pleasantness of the earlier years of his artistic career, which are almost entirely lost in the later years, rise to the surface in the waltzes.
Rose-red lips and coils of raven hair no longer made on the maître d'hôtel the same impression as in the golden days when the band played dreamy waltzes and dashing gentlemen leaned caressingly over dazzling shoulders. Of the man he had felled, Paul spoke never a word. Apparently he had vanished as he had come unknown. "Truly, Sir Paul, there has been no lady here to answer your description.
I think I have my name down upon your card for two more waltzes. Forget that, and give them to Gower, or any one else that suits you. For my part I do not care to " He checks himself too late. "Go on," says Dulce, coldly, in an ominously calm fashion. "You had more to say, surely; you do not care to dance them with me you meant to say. Isn't it?" "You can think as you wish, of course."
Eeny cried ecstatically, when the flying hands paused, "I never heard anything like that. What was it?" "Only a German waltz, you little enthusiast! Don't you play?" "A little. Rose plays too, polkas and waltzes; but bah! not like that." "Who is your teacher?" "Monsieur De Lancey. He comes from Montreal twice a week to give us lessons. But you play better than he does."
Most of the men were at the bandstand in the public gardens from the Club verandah you could hear the native Police band hammering stale waltzes or on the polo-ground or in the high-walled fives-court, hotter than a Dutch oven. Half a dozen grooms, squatted at the heads of their ponies, waited their masters' return.
But his teaching repertoire seems to have contained, with the exception of the waltzes, none of the works a deux mains, neither the sonatas, nor the impromptus, nor the "Moments musicals." This shows that if Schubert was a favourite of Chopin's, he was so only to a certain extent. Indeed, Chopin even found fault with the master where he is universally regarded as facile princeps. Liszt remarks:
The music was always ready, a dozen or more players of the violin and piano relieving each other in rendering sets of cotillons, waltzes and polkas, the latter dance being then just in fashion. Next to the dance, some form of musical diversion was in favor. After the reorganization Mr.
"Madame Bielenitsine boasted that she had a complete collection of classical music; but in reality she has nothing but polkas and waltzes. However, I have already written to Moscow, and you shall have the overture in a week." "By the way," he continued, "I wrote a new romance yesterday; the words are mine as well as the music. Would you like me to sing it to you?
So it is, and so it must remain, it can't be otherwise. You can account for things, you can open it and show the human ingenuity in arranging the waltzes, how they go, and how one note follows upon another! 'Those are exactly my opinions, they all said, and the music-master got leave to show the bird to the public next Sunday. They were also to hear it sing, said the emperor.
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