my-sensibility

Updated: January 13, 2026

This scene, this contrast, this excess of grief had over-powered my-sensibility; I remember only the moment when the death-rattle of the departing one interrupted the Countess in the middle of the second piece. The instrument was quickly removed, and beside the bed remained only the priest who said the prayers for the dying, and the kneeling friends around him.

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