Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . ght Paganini had unconsciously transformedLiszt, and with him the art of piano-playing. It remains to be seen how the classic school withstood the shock ofPaganinis artistic personality. On this head Moscheles is our mosttrustworthy guide, since Moscheles himself was an innovator and haddeveloped bravura playing on classic lines to an unprecedented his diary Moscheles complains of his utter inability to find languagecapable of conveying a description of Paganinis wonderful performance. Had that long-drawn, soul-searching tone lost for a s
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . ght Paganini had unconsciously transformedLiszt, and with him the art of piano-playing. It remains to be seen how the classic school withstood the shock ofPaganinis artistic personality. On this head Moscheles is our mosttrustworthy guide, since Moscheles himself was an innovator and haddeveloped bravura playing on classic lines to an unprecedented his diary Moscheles complains of his utter inability to find languagecapable of conveying a description of Paganinis wonderful performance. Had that long-drawn, soul-searching tone lost for a single second itsbalance, it would have lapsed into a discordant cats mew. But it neverdid so, and Paganinis tone was always his own, unique of its kind. Thethin strings of his instrument, on which alone it was possible to conjureforth those myriads of notes and trills and cadenzas, would have beenfatal in the hands of any other violin-player, but with him they wereindispensable adjuncts. And lastly, his compositions were so ultra-origi- 18(i. PAGANINI, THE TORCH OF ROMANTICISM 187 nal, so completely in harmony with the weird and strange figure of theman, that, if wanting in depth and earnestness, the deficiency never be-trayed itself during the authors dazzling display of power. . After the sixth concert, Moscheles makes thefollowing admission : My mind ispeculiarly vacillating about this of all, nothing could exceed mysurprise and admiration — his constantand venturesome flights; his newly dis-covered source of flageolet tones; hisgift of fusing and beautifying subjectsof the most heterogeneous kind; allthese phases of genius so completely be-wildered my musical perceptions thatfor several days afterward my headseemed on fire and my brain never wearied of the intense expres-paganini. sion, soft and melting like that of an Prom an old lithograph. tj i* • i • i 1 i i l o Italian singer, which he could draw iromhis violin, and, dazzled as I was, I coul
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