This mode of development, which preludes the customary entomological forms by the multiple transfigurations of the larva, certainly deserves a special name: I suggest that of hypermetamorphosis.
That the boy should have mastered a work of such extraordinary difficulty as Bach's collection of preludes and fugues may well have excited the astonishment of his friend and teacher, whose praise was thus deservedly given.
To Liszt the Preludes seem modestly named, but "are not the less types of perfection in a mode created by himself, and stamped like all his other works with the high impress of his poetic genius.
Gutmann, Chopin's pupil, who nursed him to the last, declared the Preludes to have been composed before he went away with Madame Sand, and to Niecks personally he maintained that he had copied all of them.
We know the wonderful Bach Preludes, which grew out of a free improvisation to the collection of dance forms called a suite, and the preludes which precede his fugues.
Very few of the Preludes present this character of ennui, and that which is the most marked, the second one, must have been written, according to Count Tarnowski, a long time before he went to Majorca.
It was in these Preludes that Ignaz Moscheles first comprehended Chopin and his methods of execution.
Its dark introspection colors many of the preludes and mazurkas, and in the C sharp minor Scherzo it is in acrid flowering--truly fleurs du mal.
That the Preludes are a sheaf of moods, loosely held together by the rather vague title, is demonstrated by the third, in the key of G.
The Preludes bear the opus number 28 and are dedicated to J.
The Preludes are, in their aphoristic brevity, masterpieces of the first rank.
Several of the Preludes are very morbid--I purposely use this word--as is some of his early music, while he seems quite gay just before his death.
It must have been this number that impelled Rubinstein to assert that the Preludes were the pearls of his works.
Fascinating, full of perilous acclivities and sudden treacherous descents, this most brilliant of preludes is Chopin in riotous spirits.
The emotional and problematic significance given by Mendelssohn to many of his shorter piano pieces, including even such works as preludes and fugues, is familiar to us all.
The summons of the heralds preludes the climax of the act.
But the Forty-eight Preludes and Fugues, with the Beethoven sonatas were the daily musical sustenance, the bread of life, for Ulick.
Chopin came third in this immortal trio of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; Chopin, whosePreludes and Studies contain the past, present and future of the pianoforte.
I can also sincerely praise the three preludes (Op.
It preludes a short chorus ("Sitting upon the Throne"), the previous melody still continuing in the orchestra.
She sang much more beautifully than he had expected, and during the preludes and fugues and the sonatas by Bach, which finished the programme, he thought of her voice, occasionally questioning himself regarding his taste for her.
What else is our life than a series of preludes to that unknown song of which the first solemn note is struck by death?
A chain of alluring harmonies preludes the ensnaring song, mainly of woodwind above the humming strings, with soft dotting of the harmony by the horns.
And let us have a prelude about all this sort of roguery, like thepreludes of our other laws.
The legislator should give preludes or preambles to his laws.
Such are the preludes which we sing to all who have thoughts of unholy and treasonable actions, and to him who hearkens to them the law has nothing to say.
The remaining choral-preludes fill one Jahrgang, and the other organ works two more.
Four Preludesand Fugues in D minor, E minor, and two in A minor (200, pp.
They range from short and slight preludes to works of the most intricate brilliancy, abounding in all the science as well as in all the melodious art of which Bach was master.
Far otherwise is it with the two sets of preludes and fugues through all the major and minor keys, called the Wohltemperirte Clavier.
The never-ending wail of the violins preludes to a tragedy which sums up all human suffering.
The third stage in the course of instruction was constituted by the preludes and fugues of the Wohltemperirte Clavier, in which technical execution is combined with beauty of form and expression, each in its finest development.
The Forty-Eight Preludes and Fugues were begun partly with an educational purpose.
The two parts are in some measure distinguished by the greater development of some of the preludes in the second, which are now and then sonatas on a small scale, and by the technical incompleteness of some fugues in the first.
It is true that he preferred a very large round sum of money of his own to half an hour of fugues and preludes, but he infinitely preferred half an hour of fugues and preludes to about seven and sixpence of Lady Haslemere's.
But to-night the fugues and preludes so deftly exhibited by Lady Devereux seemed only temporarily efficacious.
Sometimes the gourd alonepreludes the singing, as in a band of musicians; at others, it follows the voice of the singer, and very seldom rests for ever so little a while.
Boys of seven years old pierce their little arms in imitation of their parents, and display plenty of wounds, indications of courage superior to their years, and preludes of war, for which they are educated from earliest infancy.
The extravasations of blood accompany the hepatic congestion of hot climates, and probably are the preludes to suppurative inflammation.
His playing of many of the preludes and some of the fugues was a revelation of exquisite poems, and he performed them, not only with graduated shading, but with marked contrasts of tone effect.
He would play by heart one or two of the preludes and fugues from the 'Well-tempered Clavier,' then take up the music and continue from book as the humour took him.
And already in the first lesson he placed before me his wondrously--beautiful Preludes and Studies.
I would like very much that my Preludes should be dedicated to Pleyel (surely there is still time, for they are not yet printed) and the Ballade to Robert Schumann.
Chopin remarked of this transaction to Gutmann, or in his hearing: "I sold thePreludes to Pleyel because he liked them [parcequ'il les.
I also wrote to Pleyel with the Preludesthat I give him the Ballade (which I sold to Probst for Germany) for 1,000 francs.
Fontana that he would send the Preludes soon; and it was only his illness that prevented him from doing so.
This last figure has, no doubt, to be read as 28, as the Preludescould hardly be in print at that time, and the Impromptu, Op.
Much in miniature are these Preludes of the Polish poet," says Huneker.
Part of the work of the lessons was to transpose long pieces at sight; later on Bach's Preludes and Fugues were done in the same way.
The twenty-four Preludes were composed before the trip to Majorca, though they were perfected and polished while there.
The instruments were used to accompany the voices, and also for preludes and interludes.
The one hundred and thirty choral preludes which have come down to us from Bach's pen are samples of the kind of thing that he was extemporizing Sunday after Sunday.
In Bach's early days choral preludes by famous masters had found their way into print in large numbers, and were the objects of his assiduous study.
But as with other themes so with this he preludes with a few glorious chords the great strain soon to come.
Another eager one, the almond-tree, risking the loss of its fruit, hastens to echo these preludes to the festival of the sun, preludes which are too often treacherous.
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