Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . e seemed almost an apostle. One could almostsee the foam of the furious waves dashing upon his pale, impassive face,with its eagle eye and clear, sharp profile. The most violent brazen sonoritywas followed by the fine-drawn cobwebs of a dream: and entire passageswere given as if they were parentheses. The remembrance of his playingconsoles me for being no longer young. Without entirely agreeing withM. de Levy, who said that any one who could attain as great a technicwould on that very account be farther removed from him, still it iscertain that Lis
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . e seemed almost an apostle. One could almostsee the foam of the furious waves dashing upon his pale, impassive face,with its eagle eye and clear, sharp profile. The most violent brazen sonoritywas followed by the fine-drawn cobwebs of a dream: and entire passageswere given as if they were parentheses. The remembrance of his playingconsoles me for being no longer young. Without entirely agreeing withM. de Levy, who said that any one who could attain as great a technicwould on that very account be farther removed from him, still it iscertain that Liszts prodigious technic was only one of the factors of his 242 FRANZ LISZT 243 talent. It was not his fingers alone which made him such a marvelousperformer, but the qualities of the great musician and the great poet whichhe possessed, his large heart, and his beautiful soul—above all, the soul of his race. His great heart appears in all its nobility in the book which he wroteon Chopin. Where others would have found a rival Liszt saw only a.
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