Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . he antidote for a disor-dered spirit; religious chants haunting oldconvents; churchly hymns of victory; theritual of the Mass; grim death and ghastlypurgatory, are all present unmistakably inhis music. The Protestant philosophic spiritof In Memoriam is the sharpest possiblecontrast to the passionate misery of the So-nata in B flat minor. Chopin has left us mazurkas, fresh andnarrative; waltzes, prismatic from the alem-bic of his refining imagination; nocturnes,the perfection of chivalrous love-dreams;scherzos, tragic to the hearts core; preludes,Wo
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . he antidote for a disor-dered spirit; religious chants haunting oldconvents; churchly hymns of victory; theritual of the Mass; grim death and ghastlypurgatory, are all present unmistakably inhis music. The Protestant philosophic spiritof In Memoriam is the sharpest possiblecontrast to the passionate misery of the So-nata in B flat minor. Chopin has left us mazurkas, fresh andnarrative; waltzes, prismatic from the alem-bic of his refining imagination; nocturnes,the perfection of chivalrous love-dreams;scherzos, tragic to the hearts core; preludes,Wordsworthian in simplicity and charm;etudes, complete as sonnets; impromptus,full of life or touched with tenderestromance; polonaises, the exquisite expres-sion of the pageantry of his native land;and three sonatas, each a tremendous trag-edy,—eighty-six opera in all. Not a largeportfolio, but potent to withstand the falsetrend of the modern declamatory pianomusic and to shape the future of the art ina more normal and vigorous
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