surpass-anything

Updated: June 29, 2025

Thus, although comprising thoughts that in beauty and grandeur equal I would almost say surpass-anything Chopin has written, the work stands, on account of its pathological contents, outside the sphere of art. The bright brilliancy and light pleasantness of the earlier years of his artistic career, which are almost entirely lost in the later years, rise to the surface in the waltzes.

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