Mezzotints in Modern Music Brahms Tschakowsky Chopin Richard Strauss Lis
Mezzotints in Modern Music Brahms Tschakowsky Chopin Richard Strauss Lis
Huneker James
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It is Polish and something more. He was first a musician and then a Pole. I suspect that too much patriotism is read into his music by impressionable writers. The Thaddeus of Warsaw pose is dead in liter- ature, but it has survived in all its native pul- chritude in the biographies of Chopin. Liszt is to blame for this in his sweet-caramel book about Chopin, a true Liszt rhapsody, which George Sand pronounced " un peu exube- rante. " Let us once and for all rid ourselves of the dawdling poseur ...of Liszt, and on the other side avoid the neat, prim, rare-roast beef por- trait drawn by Joseph Bennett. Karasowski, in a frantic endeavor to escape Liszt's Ca- mille of the keyboard, with his violets, his tears and tuberculosis, created a bull-necked athlete, who almost played Polish cricket and had aspirations toward the prize ring. 221 MEZZOTINTS IN MODERN MUSIC Chopin's heroism was emotional, not mus- cular. Jean Kleczynski's book is pedagogic and throws little light on the tradition of Chopin's execution.
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