Author : James Huneker
Release : 2017-12-11
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
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Download or read book The Steinway Collection of Paintings by American Artists written by James Huneker. This book was released on 2017-12-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Steinway Collection of Paintings by American Artists: Together With Prose Portraits of the Great Composers Ric Frangois Chopin. She it was, even before Liszt, who interpreted his personality and music in her supple prose. The history of her life tells us of her sojourn on the Isle of Majorca with the sick, ner vous composer. It was at the deserted monastery of Valdemosa, which for him was full of terrors and phantoms, but only interesting to her more robust imagination. Often on returning from her nocturnal rambles with her children she would find him at the keyboard, pale, his eyes haggard, hair on end, unable to recognize them at once, and then, after an attempted smile, he would play sublime things, terrible, heart rending ideas that had obsessed him m his hours of sadness and solitude. Some are the visions of deceased monks and the sounds of funeral chants, which beset his fancy; others are sweet and melancholy - they came to him in the hours of sunshine and health, with the noise of the children's laughter under the window, the distant sound of guitars, the warbling of the birds among the humid foliage, and the sight of the pale, little roses on the snow. Others, again, are of a mournful character, and, while charming the ear, lacerate the heart. Thus George Sand, concerning those compositions modestly entitled by the composer, 'preludes. Of them Robert Schumann wrote: I must signalize them as most remarkable. I will confess I expected something quite different, carried out in the grand style of his studies. It is almost the contrary here 5 these are sketches, the beginnings of studies, on, if you will, ruins, the feathers of eagles, all strangely inter mingled. But in every piece we find in his own hand, Frederic Chopin wrote it. The Treludes were published In I 8 39, the same year of the trip. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.