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These close the lamentably small number of manifestations of a most decisive ability. Another Cleveland composer well spoken of is Charles Sommer. A young woman of genuine ability, who has been too busy with teaching and concert pianism to find as much leisure as she deserves for composition, is Patty Stair, a prominent musical figure in Cleveland.
If we obliterate the emotional side and depend upon artifice or what might be called in vulgar parlance "tricks of the trade," pianism will inevitably descend to a vastly lower level. By cultivating a sensibility in touch and employing the technical means which will bring the interpreter's message to the world with the least possible obstruction, we reach the highest in the art.
If rarely deep, he is never dull, and no composer has given the world more elegant and graceful melodies of the kind which charm the drawing-room and furnish a good excuse for young-lady pianism. He is greatly behind his Italian brethren in those mad scenes which they so largely affect.
The educator thought for awhile, and then said, "It is very likely that your daughter will be successful in her chosen field, but the amount of grinding study she will be obliged to undergo to meet the towering standards of modern pianism is awful to contemplate. In the end she will have the flattery of the multitude, and, let us hope, some of their dollars as well.
On the contrary, in order to preserve Chopin's spirit, the master would always repudiate any changes, like those of Tausig, for instance, by which some virtuosos pretend to "emphasize" or "modernize" Chopin's personal and perfect pianism. Differences in treatment are the outcome of deep insight as well as the study of the time and conditions under which the work was produced.
The torrential splendor of his pianism, his mighty crescendos and whispering diminuendos, his marvelous variety of tone all were in the nature of a revelation; his personal magnetism carried everything before it. American audiences were at his feet. In Von Bülow was found a player of quite a different caliber.
He was heart and soul a composer, and to be able to play his own music as he heard it in his inner ear was his single spur to practice. From the time of his complete immersion in composition, his ideas of pianistic effects, of tone colour, gradually led him farther and farther away from conventional pianism. Scales and arpeggios, as commonly rendered, had no longer interest or charm for him.
Moscheles himself was a more bold and versatile player than any other performer of his school, but he aimed assiduously to confine his efforts within the perfectly legitimate and well-established channels of pianism. As an extemporaneous player, perhaps no pianist has ever lived who could surpass Moscheles.
What may be said of the sensitiveness of the finger tips? By what device may pianism descend to a lower level? What qualities must the student preserve above all things? Will genius or talent take the place of study and work? Miss Katharine Goodson was born at Watford, Herts, England.
The cities of Germany received him with the most éclatant admiration, and his feats of skill as a performer were trumpeted by the newspapers and musical journals as something unprecedented in the art of pianism. From Germany Thalberg proceeded to France and England, and his audiences were no less pronounced in their recognition.
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