pianistic

Updated: June 8, 2025

This concerto, which is in D major, is a good example of the completeness of Huss' armory of resources. The first movement has the martial pomp and hauteur and the Sardanapalian opulence and color that mark a barbaric triumph. Chopin has been the evident model, and the result is always pianistic even at its most riotous point.

Rupert Hughes - Contemporary American Composers: Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present: Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and: Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an: Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and: Compositions

All of his compositions are pianistic and he does not condescend to pander to a trifling public taste. He is a man with a great mind, and, in addition to this, he has a delightful sense of proportion and a feeling for the beautiful, all of which makes him a composer of the master mould. His compositions will endure as long as music.

James Francis Cooke - Great Pianists on Piano Playing: Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression

The working out section is too short and dissonantal, but there is development, perhaps more technical than logical I mean by this more pianistic than intellectually musical and we mount with the composer until the B flat version of the second subject is reached, for the first subject, strange to say, does not return.

James Huneker - Chopin : the Man and His Music

Sometimes he tried over a few measures on the piano as many as fifty times, changing the value or significance of a note; as a result, his piano writing is almost always "pianistic." In one respect he was sometimes careless: in the noting of the expression marks. By the time he arrived at that duty he was usually tired out.

Lawrence Gilman - Edward MacDowell

Can Liszt be regarded as a pianistic composer in the same sense as that in which Chopin is considered pianistic? How should a very talented child's practice time be divided? What part does right thinking play in execution? How should the child's general education be conducted? Should the education be confined to the classroom? Should the musical child be encouraged to read fiction?

James Francis Cooke - Great Pianists on Piano Playing: Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression

Liszt, in speaking to me on this subject, simply remarked: "Chopin was unfortunate in his pupils none of them has become a player of any importance, although some of his noble pupils played very well." If we compare Liszt's pianistic offspring with Chopin's, the difference is indeed striking.

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