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L grave and impenetrable; Leonora, blushing, turned away to the piano-forte. Mr. L remained talking with Lady Olivia, and he neither saw nor heard her. If Leonora had sung like an angel, it would have made no impression. She turned over the leaves of her music quickly, to a lively air, and played it immediately, to prevent my perceiving how much she felt.
Thou knowest her supreme excellence in music; the taste, feeling, and expression with which she plays; and the enchanting sweetness and energy with which she sings. Having written my verses, I took them, when she was busied elsewhere, to the piano-forte; and made some unsuccessful attempts to please myself with an air to them.
In ordinary conversation about persons employ the expressions men and women; gentleman and lady are distinctive appellations, and not to be used upon general occasions. You should say forte-piano, not piano-forte: and the street door, not the front door.
During the next three years, up to 1849, Schumann wrote some of his finest works, among which may be mentioned his opera "Genoviva," his Second symphony, the cantata "The Rose's Pilgrimage," more beautiful songs, much piano-forte and concerted music, and the musical illustrations of Byron's "Manfred," which latter is one of his greatest orchestral works.
Eve's good-humor and mirth were restored by David's success, and now nothing would serve her turn but a duet, pianoforte and violin. Miss Fountain objected, "Why spoil the violin?" David objected too, "I had hoped to hear the piano-forte, and how can I with a fiddle sounding under my chin?" Eve overruled both peremptorily. "Well, Miss Dodd, what shall we select?
Active Production in Orchestral Composition. Artistic Tour in Holland. He is seized with Brain Disease. Characteristics as a Man, as an Artist, and as a Philosopher. Mme. Schumann as her Husband's Interpreter. Chopin a Colaborer with Schumann. Schumann on Chopin again. Chopin's Nativity. Exclusively a Piano-forte Composer. His Genre as Pianist and Composer. Aversion to Concert-giving.
The cast of the melody, the matchless beauty and swing of the rhythm, his ingenious treatment of harmony, and the chromatic changes and climaxes through which the motives are developed, make up a new chapter in the history of the piano-forte. Liszt, in his life of Chopin, says of him: "His character was indeed not easily understood.
Miss Hauton was at the piano-forte when he entered the room: she was sitting with her back to the door, surrounded by a crowd of amateurs; she did not see him he stood behind listening to her singing.
That city was a musical centre and Camilla would be sure to meet with a good reception there. Accordingly under the guidance of the American the entire party went to Boston. Mr. Jonas Chickering, the piano-forte manufacturer kindly welcomed her and invited her to call at his residence on Boylston street, two doors from the building now occupied by the Art Club.
They who have been so favored can never forget the square anteroom, with its great picture and piano-forte, at which the boy Browning passed many an hour, the little dining-room covered with tapestry, and where hung medallions of Tennyson, Carlyle, and Robert Browning, the long room filled with plaster casts and studies, which was Mr.
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