intellectually-perceptible

Updated: August 6, 2026

And if we know something of his history and that of his nation, we cannot be at a loss to give names and local habitations to the impalpable, but emotionally and intellectually-perceptible contents of his music. We have to distinguish in Chopin the personal and the national tone-poet, the singer of his own joys and sorrows and that of his country's.

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