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Frederic Chopin
« Itell my piano the things Iused to tell you».
«If I were still stupider than Iam, Ishould think myself at the apex of my career; yet
Iknow how much Istill lack, to reach perfection; Isee it the more clearly now that Ilive
only among rst-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks».
«Having nothing to do, Iam correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the
engraver’s mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to
understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that
sometimes Ican guess)».
«I’m arevolutionary, money means nothing to me».
About concerts and performance
«Yesterday’s concert was asuccess. Ihasten to let you know. Iinform your Lordship
that Iwas not abit nervous and played as Iplay when Iam alone. It went well… and
Ihad to come back and bow four times».
«All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too soly, or rather, too
delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here».
«ey want me to give another concert but Ihave no desire to do so. You cannot
imagine what atorture the three days before apublic appearance are to me».
«ere are certain times when Ifeel more inspired, lled with astrong power that
forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when Ifeel more need than ever for aPleyel
piano».
«A strange adventure befell me while Iwas playing my Sonata in Bat minor before
some English friends. Ihad played the Allegro and the Scherzo more or less correctly.
Iwas about to attack the March when suddenly Isaw arising from the body of my
piano those cursed creatures which had appeared to me one lugubrious night at the
Chartreuse. Ihad to leave for one instant to pull myself together aer which Icontinued
without saying anything».
«One needs only to study acertain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to
obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short
notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. Awell-formed technique, it seems to
me, can control and vary abeautiful sound quality».
About places and people
«I don’t know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so
many virtuosi».
«I haven’t heard anything so great for along time; Beethoven snaps his ngers at the
whole world…»
«I have met agreat celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand… Her
appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively
repels me… What an unattractive person La Sand is… Is she really a woman? I’m
inclined to doubt it».
«e Ocial Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans
are of Mozart; obvious nonsense».
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«I don’t know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and Iam
amazed at them for nding anything to be amazed about».
«Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel
evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play
waltzes…Aer every waltz they get huge applause; and if
they play aQuodlibet, or jumble of opera, song and dance,
the hearers are so overjoyed that they don’t know what to do
with themselves. It shows the corrupt taste of the Viennese
public».
«Here, waltzes are called works! And Strauss and Lanner, who
play them for dancing, are called Kapellmeistern. is does not mean
that everyone thinks like that; indeed, nearly everyone laughs about it; but only waltzes
get printed».
«Kalkbrenner has made me an oer; that Ishould study with him for three years,
and he will make something really— really out of me. Ianswered that Iknow how
much Ilack; but that Icannot exploit him, and three years is too much. But he has
convinced me that Ican play admirably when Iam in the mood, and badly when Iam
not; athing which never happens to him. Aer close examination he told me that Ihave
no school; that Iam on an excellent road, but can slip o the track. at aer his death,
or when he nally stops playing, there will be no representative of the great piano-forte
school. at even if Iwish it, Icannot build up anew school without knowing the old
one; in aword: that Iam not aperfected machine, and that this hampers the ow of my
thoughts. at I have amark in composition; that it would be apity not to become what
Ihave the promise of being…»
«Aer arest in Edinburgh, where, passing amusic-shop, Iheard some blind man
playing amazurka of mine…»
«England is acountry of pianos, they are everywhere».
«Here, whatever is not boring is not English».
«England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to
them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night.
For here they have ower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music…»
About health and death
«My manuscripts sleep, while Icannot, for Iam covered with poultices».
«e three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One snied
at what Ispat, the second tapped where Ispat from, and the third sounded me and
listened as Ispat. e rst said Iwas dead, the second that Iwas dying and the third
that I’m going to die».
«e earth is suocating… As this cough will choke me, Iimplore you to have my
body opened, so that Imay not be buried alive».
«Play Mozart in memory of me».
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Frederic Chopin
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QUOTES ABOUT CHOPIN DURING HIS TIME
by Robert Schumann
”Hats o gentlemen, agenius!»
«It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the
piano like aclairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how his vision
communicated itself through his playing, and how, at the end
of each piece, he had the sad habit of running one nger over
the length of the plaintive keyboard, as though to tear himself
forcibly away from his dream».
«If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what adangerous
enemy threatened him in Chopin’s works in the simple tunes of his
mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin’s works are canons buried in owers».
«We may be sure that agenius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos
like Chopin and not like Mozart».
by Felix Mendelssohn
«ere is something fundamentally personal and at the same time so very masterly
in his playing that he may be called areally perfect virtuoso».
by Franz Liszt
«Music was his language, the divine tongue through which he expressed awhole
realm of sentiments that only the select few can appreciate… e muse of his homeland
dictates his songs, and the anguished cries of Poland lend to his art a mysterious,
indenable poetry which, for all those who have truly experienced it, cannot be
compared to anything else… e piano alone was not sucient to reveal all that lies
within him. In short he is amost remarkable individual who commands our highest
degree of devotion».
by George Sand
«His music was spontaneous, miraculous. He found it without seeking it, without
previous intimation of it. It came upon his piano sudden, complete, sublime, or it sang
in his head during awalk, and he was impatient to hear it himself with the help of
the instrument. But then began the most desperate labor that Ihave ever witnessed. It
was asuccession of eorts, hesitations and moments of impatience to recapture certain
details of the theme he could hear; what he had conceived as one piece, he analyzed
too much in trying to write it down, and his dismay at his inability to rediscover it in
what he thought was its original purity threw him into akind of despair. He would lock
himself up in his room for whole days, weeping, pacing back and forth, breaking his
pens, repeating or changing one bar ahundred times, writing and erasing it as many
times, and beginning again the next day with an innite and desperate perseverance.
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He sometimes spent six weeks on one page, only in the end to write it exactly as he had
sketched at the rst dra».
«Chopin has written two wonderful mazurkas which are worth more than forty
novels and are more eloquent than the entire century’s literature».
by Hector Berlioz
«Chopin had the fortunate idea of playing the Adagio [Romance, Larghetto]
from his last Concerto. Placed between two orchestral compositions maintained in
aturbulent style, this enchanting work, in which irresistible charm is combined with
most profound religious thoughts, submerged the listeners into aspecic joy— serene
and ecstatic— to which we have not become accustomed in asimilar situation. All
this diers greatly from the endless adagios, which usually ll the middle movement
of apiano concerto; in this case, there is so much simplicity used with such freshness
of imagination, that when the last note was heard, in the manner of apearl cast into
agolden vase, the audience, immersed in contemplation, continued to listen, and for
afew moments restrained itself from applauding. In the same way, while observing
the harmonious descent of twilight semi-shadows, we remain motionless in the
darkness, with our eyes still focused on that point of the horizon, where the light has
just faded».
by Ignace Moscheles
«Now, for the rst time, Iunderstood his music, and could also explain to myself
the great enthusiasm of the ladies. e sudden modulations that Icould not grasp when
Imyself played his works no longer bother me. His piano is so ethereal that no forte is
needed to create the necessary contrast. Listening to him, one yields with one’s whole
soul, as to asinger who, oblivious of accompaniment, lets himself be carried away by his
emotion. In short, he is unique among pianists».
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by Wilhelm Lenz
«Every single note was played with the highest degree of taste, in the noblest sense
of the word. When he embellished, which he rarely did, it was apositive miracle of
renement».
«I learnt about many general issues concerning piano playing by working together
with Liszt on Mazurkas in Bb major and in Aminor from Op. 7 by Chopin. […] He
treated them very seriously, especially the at the rst glance easy bass in maggiore in the
Mazurka in Aminor. What alot of work he took upon himself for my sake. «Only an ass
could think that this is easy, but you can tell avirtuoso in those ties. Play it this way to
Chopin, and he will certainly notice and be pleased. ose foolish French editions spoil
everything; the slurs in the bass must be placed thus. If you play to him in this fashion,
he will give you alesson».
«is should be aquestion. Chopin taught, and it was never question enough for him,
never played «piano» enough, never suciently falling away (tombé), as he said, never
«important» enough. is must be acharnel house, he once said. He was also heard to
say that this is the key to the whole composition. He was equally demanding as to the
simple, quaver accompaniment to the cantilène and the cantilène itself. One should
imagine the Italian canto and not the French vaudeville, he once declared mockingly».
by Karol Mikuli, Chopin’s pupil
«Chopin’s rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justied itself
by astrengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or aectation».
by Antoni Orlowski, Chopin’s friend
«Chopin is full of health and strength; all the French women are aer him, and all
the French men are jealous. He is the rage; the world will soon see people wearing newfashioned gloves— gloves àla Chopin».
by C.E. & M.Halle
«e marvelous charm, the poetry and originality, the perfect freedom and absolute
lucidity of Chopin’s playing cannot be described. It is perfect in every sense».
«He felt very unhappy when he heard the grande polonaise in Aat major played
fast, as it spoilt the whole grandeur and majesty of that noble inspiration».
by La France Musicale
«Chopin is apianist of conviction. He composes for himself, plays for himself and
everyone listens with interest, with delight, with innite pleasure. Listen how he dreams,
how he weeps, with what sweetness, tenderness and melancholy he sings, how perfectly
he expresses the gentlest and loiest feelings».
«Chopin is the pianist of sentiment par excellence. He may be said to have created
aschool of playing and aschool of composition. Nothing indeed equals the lightness and
sweetness of his preluding on the piano, nothing compares with his works in originality,
distinction and grace».
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«Chopin has done for the piano what Schubert has done for the voice. Chopin is
unique as apianist: he should not and cannot be compared with anyone».
by La Revue Musicale
«Chopin has broken new trails for himself. His playing and his composition, from
the very beginning, have won such high standing that in the eyes of many he has become
an inexplicable phenomenon… No one as yet has tried to dene the special character
and merit of those works, what distinguished them from others, and why they occupy
such ahigh place».
«Here is ayoung man, abandoning himself to his natural impressions and without
taking amodel, has found, if not acomplete renewal of pianoforte music, at least apart
of what has been sought in vain for along time— namely an abundance of original
ideas of which the type is to be found nowhere».
«e enchanting pianist speaks aseductive language with his ngers and discloses
his soul through his playing, which in turn leaves nothing to be desired. It is as though
the piano had been transformed in some way and had become a totally dierent
instrument, responding to the ery touch of agenius, at once gentle and passionate».
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2. Burns F. Did Bach’s wife write some of his best-known works? http://www.
classicfm.com/composers/bach/news/magdalena-cello-suites-goldberg-variations/
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