Programme . at work which camefrom the circle and was stamped by it as distinguished. As a resultthe whole circle fell into narrow-mindedness, impersonality, and affec-tation. Korsakoff is the only one of them who about five years agocame to the conviction that the ideas preached in the circle werewholly unfounded; that the scorn of school and classical music andthe denial of authorities and master-works were nothing else thanignorance. I still have a letter of that period which much moved andimpressed me. Rimsky-Korsakoff was in doubt when he becameaware of so many years passed without advant
Programme . at work which camefrom the circle and was stamped by it as distinguished. As a resultthe whole circle fell into narrow-mindedness, impersonality, and affec-tation. Korsakoff is the only one of them who about five years agocame to the conviction that the ideas preached in the circle werewholly unfounded; that the scorn of school and classical music andthe denial of authorities and master-works were nothing else thanignorance. I still have a letter of that period which much moved andimpressed me. Rimsky-Korsakoff was in doubt when he becameaware of so many years passed without advantage and when he foundhimself on a road that led nowhere. He asked himself: What shallI then do ? It ; tood to reason he must learn. And he began to studywith such fervor that school-technic was soon for him somethingindispensable. In one summer he wrote a mass of contrapuntal ex-ercises and sixty-four fugues, of which I received ten for examina-tion. The fugues were flawless, but I noticed even then that the. g6 and 28 West Street e~^i^^ cNieiv Englands Greatest Piano House M. STEINERT & SONS CO. Excl
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