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1. Marion played Chopin reasonably well, was an interminable flirt, everybody was madly in love with her and she had wealthy relatives in the USA who sent her beautiful dresses, shoes, costume jewellery and all those accoutrements that can turn a plump, short-legged teenager into a devastatingly beautiful young woman
2. The first performer played a few pieces of Chopin for the audience, while the second performer played some Beethoven
3. music… pieces by Mozart and Chopin
4. Even Chopin, who has been called "the poet of the piano," owned
5. De Pachmann could have: "I play for you Chopin
6. Mozart and Beethoven sonatas, Chopin, and others for the
7. 20, by Chopin, at his examination
8. and after one Chopin number he turned to me and said, "He
9. Of course the exercises were tuneless, boring and interminable but usually when I was there listening to her she would also play some of the wonderful pieces of Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn for my benefit
10. Almost my height, in a robe de chambre, blond hair freshly brushed, lively face made up to perfection and a perfume that lingered and caressed your senses like a Chopin nocturne in the background
11. It is a hauntingly beautiful piece, sadder even than the Chopin, and I lose myself to the beauty of the lament
12. “He’s not bombastic like Brahms, or romantic like Chopin
13. Not Chopin, for gosh sakes - '
14. '" Then the fog comes on again, Hoffman appears on the scene, the wood-nymph whistles a tune from Chopin, and suddenly out of the fog appears Ancus Marcius over the roofs of Rome, wearing a laurel wreath
15. People who grew up in the first half of this century, admiring Goethe, Schiller, Musset, Hugo, Dickens, Beethoven, Chopin, Raphael, da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Delaroche, being unable to make head or tail of this new art, simply attribute its productions to tasteless insanity, and wish to ignore them
16. But such an attitude toward this new art is quite unjustifiable, because, in the first place, that art is spreading more and more, and has already conquered for itself a firm position in society, similar to the one occupied by the Romanticists in the third decade of this century; and, secondly and chiefly, because, if it is permissible to judge in this way of the productions of the latest form of art, called by us Decadent art, merely because we do not understand it, then remember there are an enormous number of people,—all the laborers, and many of the non-laboring folk,—who, in just the same way, do not comprehend those productions of art which we consider admirable: the verses of our favorite artists—Goethe, Schiller, and Hugo; the novels of Dickens, the music of Beethoven and Chopin, the pictures of Raphael, Michael Angelo, da Vinci, etc
17. Schumann is good, but all the same Chopin takes a stronger hold of one's heart
18. And we here, washed and clothed, having left the slops in our bedrooms to be cleaned up by slaves, eat and drink and discuss Schumann and Chopin and which of them moves us most or best cures our ennui? That is what I was thinking when I passed you, so I have spoken
19. The musical score of Wagner's later operas is like what the result would be should one of those versifiers—of whom there are now many, with tongues so broken that they can write verses on any theme to any rhymes in any rhythm, which sound as if they had a meaning—conceive the idea of illustrating by his verses some symphony or sonata of Beethoven, or some ballade of Chopin, in the following manner
20. For a long time I used to attune myself so as to delight in those shapeless improvisations which form the subject-matter of the works of Beethoven's later period, but I had only to consider the question of art seriously, and to compare the impression I received from Beethoven's later works with those pleasant, clear, and strong musical impressions which are transmitted, for instance, by the melodies of Bach (his arias), Haydn, Mozart, Chopin, (when his melodies are not overloaded with complications and ornamentation), and of Beethoven himself in his earlier period, and, above all, with the impressions produced by folk-songs,—Italian, Norwegian, or Russian,—by the Hungarian tzardas, and other such simple, clear, and powerful music, and the obscure, almost unhealthy excitement from Beethoven's later pieces that I had artificially evoked in myself was immediately destroyed
