pseudo-musician

Updated: May 15, 2025

"The badly-phrasing pseudo-musician," he thought, "showed that music was not his mother-tongue, but something foreign, unintelligible to him," and that, consequently, "like that reciter, he must altogether give up the idea of producing any effect on the auditor by his rendering." Chopin hated exaggeration and affectation. His precept was: "Play as you feel."

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