wielhorski

Updated: May 7, 2025

When after the scene about the rhythm of a mazurka Chopin had left the room, Lenz introduced himself to Meyerbeer as a friend of the Counts Wielhorski, of St. Petersburg. On coming to the door, where a coupe was waiting, the composer offered to drive him home, and when they were seated said: I had not seen Chopin for a long time, I love him very much.

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

Both have the heroic quality, both are free from mawkishness and are of the greater Chopin, the Chopin of the mode masculine. Niecks makes a valuable suggestion: "In playing these nocturnes op. 48 there occurred to me a remark of Schumann's, when he reviewed some nocturnes by Count Wielhorski.

James Huneker - Chopin : the Man and His Music

In playing these nocturnes there occurred to me a remark of Schumann's, made when he reviewed some nocturnes by Count Wielhorski. He said, on that occasion, that the quicker middle movements which Chopin frequently introduces into his nocturnes are often weaker than his first conceptions, meaning the first portions of the nocturnes.

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