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Frédéric Chopin
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„Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.“
„Now I am going to wash myself. Please do not embrace me as I have not washed yet. And you? Even were I to anoint myself with fragrant oils from Byzantium, you would not embrace me—not unless forced to by magnetism. But there are forces in Nature! Today you will dream that you are embracing me! You have to pay for the nightmare you caused me last night!“
„I must go now and wash. So don’t embrace me now, as I haven’t washed myself yet.“
„My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos… in this respect this is a savage country.“
„Fingers of steel. Wrist of silk.“
„Here you doubtless observe my tendency to do wrong against my will.“
„I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.“
„I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country.“
„I astonished Kalkbrenner, who at once asked me, was I not a pupil of Field, because I have Cramer’s method and Field’s touch.“
„Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!“
„I’m a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.“
„But why should one be ashamed of writing badly in spite of knowing better – it’s results that shows errors“
„Time is still the best critic, and patience the best teacher.“
„Messieurs, I should like to be granted the favour of performing at one of your admirable concerts, and this I beg to ask of you. Trusting, since I lack other qualifications to obtain this, in your goodwill towards artists, I dare to hope that you will greet my request favourably, I have the honour to be, Messieurs, your very humble servant.Frédéric ChopinCité Bergère, No. 4“
„I am cross and depressed, and people bore me with their excessive attentions. I can’t breathe, I can’t work; I feel alone, alone, alone, although I am surrounded. There are a whole lot of ladies, 70 to 80 year-old lords, but no young folk: they are all out shooting. One can’t get out of doors because it has been raining and blowing for several days.“
„When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.“
„One needs only to study a certain 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 [attain] certain unlimited dexterity… A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.“
„I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection“
„I have met Rossini, Cherubini, Baillot, etc.—also Kalkbrenner. You would not believe how curious I was about Herz, Liszt, Hiller, etc. — They are all zero beside Kalkbrenner. I confess that I have played like Herz, but would wish to play like Kalkbrenner. If Paganini is perfection, Kalkbrenner is his equal, but in quite another style.“
„You already know when I’m writing, so don’t be surprised if it’s short and dry, because I’m too hungry to write anything fat“
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