brilliantly-heroic

Updated: September 28, 2025

Still, it is vigour, and such vigour as is not often to be met with. And, then, it is not the only kind to be found in his music. There is also a healthy vigour, which, for instance, in the A major Polonaise assumes a brilliantly-heroic form. Nor are serene and even joyous moods so rare that it would be permissible to ignore them.

Frederick Niecks - Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2