Liszt's ballads and polonaises have proved most strikingly that it was possible after Chopin to write ballads and polonaises.
He saw his own gossamer music turned into a weapon of offence; his polonaises were so many cleaving battle-axes, and perforce he had to confess that all this carnage of tone unnerved him.
The two Polonaises recapture the heroic and sorrowing spirit of Sarmatia.
The Polonaises of Count Oginski [Footnote: Among the Polonaises of Count Oginski, the one in F Major has especially retained its celebrity.
The bold and vigorous coloring of the Polonaises gives place to the most delicate, tender, and evanescent shades in the Mazourkas.
Those Polonaises which do not bear the names of their authors, but are frequently marked with the name of some hero, thus indicating their date, are generally grave and sweet.
Some contemporary Polonaises are of a character so sad, that they might almost be supposed to accompany a funeral train.
In the Polonaises of Lipinski we hear the music of the pleasure-loving heart once more beating joyously, giddily, happily, as it had done before the days of disaster and defeat.
For the two Polonaises I asked 1,500 francs for France, England, and Germany (the right of Probst is confined to the Ballade).
The same with the Polonaises in Germany, for Probst is a bird whom I have known a long time.
Also the marches and polonaises a quatre mains he played with his pupils.
If he will not have them all, give him the Ballade separately, and the Polonaises separately, but at the latest within two weeks.
The three early polonaises posthumously-published by Fontana as Op.
This is true particularly of his polonaises and his mazurkas.
Polonaises seem to have been played originally at the coronation of Polish kings when the aristocrats were marching past the throne; while the mazurkas were quaint old folk dances.
So in the polonaises we find two distinct groups: in one the objective, martial side predominates, in the other is Chopin the moody, mournful and morose.
The Polonaises are the keystone in the development of this form.
The concertos and polonaises being put aside, no one lends himself worse to youthful instruction than Chopin.
The mazurkas and polonaises are danced to-day in Poland, why not the valses?
And what about the little poupées polonaises internées, snatched from their beds and carried off without any bedclothes at all, let alone an eiderdown!
The three early polonaises posthumously- published by Fontana as Op.
The second group comprises the polonaises in C sharp and E flat minor, op.
To the first order I should assign the polonaises in A major, op.
None of the later polonaises contain a double motion of the melody, as we find in the conclusion of this.
Chopin's polonaisesmay be divided into two groups: the one with its marked rhythm, displaying the martial element; the other the dreamy melancholy feeling peculiar to Chopin.
When thepolonaises were over there were one or two waltzes.
As soon as they appeared the polonaises began, this time three only, which the Emperor danced with the ladies of the family.
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