He adores verse, for its own sake, as a brilliant executant adores his violin; he has an excellent contempt for prose, as an inferior form.
In the attempt to humanise music, that attempt which almost everyexecutant makes, knowing that he will be judged by his success or failure in it, what is most fatally lost is that sense of mystery which, to music, is atmosphere.
Moreover, the great majority of his compositions demanded from the executant other qualities than physical strength, which was indispensable in only a few of his works.
Gottschalk fell far short of his possibilities, though he was the greatest piano executant ever produced by our own country.
The triumph in the mind of the executant sustained the triumph in the idea of the compositions without strain, without spasm, but with a breadth and depth and height such as made the genius of the executantapproach the genius of the inventor.
His experiences in Warsaw, Vienna, and Paris convinced him, no doubt, that he was not made to contend with masses, either as an executant or as a composer.
And many facts in the history of his career as an executant would seem to confirm the correctness of such a feeling.
Chopin as a composer as well as anexecutant justified on this occasion the opinion previously expressed about him.
He was always in revolt against accepting things because he was expected to; but, like most executant artists, he was no reasoner, just a mere instinctive kicker against the pricks.
At first they all lived together in the Rue Nollet, at Batignolles; afterward, Frantz's success as a teacher and an executant having made its mark, they were able to take more comfortable rooms in the Rue de Douai.
Excellent musician as she was, other musicians found in her a nature able to understand them, and an executant of the first class for the interpretation of their works.
VIII My concerts in Belgium, followed in March by several at Barcelona and Madrid, mark, so to speak, the beginning of my career as executant of my own works.
The ensuing period takes on a wider aspect, thanks to the fact that, while still continuing my creative work, I became also the executant of my own music.
Well, the actor's art, like the art of the executant musician, will have the endowment of permanency.
The executant will be paid by a royalty on each reproduction, when he is wise.
But the professional executant himself will cease, like the actor, to rank as a sort of superior harlequin or performing animal, exhibiting his powers for the diversion of an assembled public.
With regard to the performance, 'much appeared more difficult to the executant than to the creator, for the sonata is very hard to play, and Brahms is a better composer than virtuoso.
Appearing as the inspired missionary of her husband's art, she succeeded in arousing interest in his compositions, whilst her personal achievements as an executant excited extraordinary enthusiasm.
Otherwise, what to the executant would appear as original might, to correct taste and judgment, appear ridiculous and extravagant.
By the faint stress laid on the foreign tone, the listener is assured that the executant is not deviating from the true pitch.
As an executant Spohr stands among the greatest of all time.
This success wounded his feelings of artistic probity; he considered it unbecoming that people should be more taken up with the skill of the executant than with the beauties of the music, and the cadence was suppressed.
A skilful executant on our harp can assuage the passions of a multitude,--nay, he can excite many of the aspirations and sensibilities ascribed in your legends to Orpheus and other mythical personages.
And the curious point is that the great artist, the musical executant who can think his own musical thoughts, compels our admiration even though we may criticise his playing in technical detail.
Pierre Gavinies claims attention both as an executant and composer.
It is quite evident that he had no notion of the exquisite enjoyment derivable from being an executant in a quartette, the conversational powers of which have been so frequently noticed.
The charge of incoherence was destined to cling to Berlioz even unto the end, whilst the colossal reputation of Liszt as an executant for a long while caused his labours as a creative musician to be underrated.
Sea-transport of troops and munitions of war has become a highly specialized business for naval directorate and mercantile executant alike.
He has now an adequate executant staff, recruited largely from the Merchants' Service.
