Thus a composition which taxes the resources of the greatest virtuosos to the utmost and which few if any amateurs can play at all, presents no difficulties whatsoever to the pianolist and actually becomes "popular.
In the whole world there are perhaps two, at the most three pianoforte virtuosos who really deserve to be called great.
But you or any one else can play the pianola, and that instantly places at your command all the technical resources of which even the greatest virtuosos can boast.
They enjoy what they play a thousand-fold more than if they were listening to the greatestvirtuosos playing the same program.
But I assure you there is in him something higher than in all the virtuososwhom I have as yet heard.
Indeed, there were few virtuosos who were as great favourites as this oboe-player; his name was absent from the programme of hardly any concert of note.
Of the many excellent virtuosos on stringed and wind- instruments only a few of the most distinguished shall be mentioned.
This is true if we compare the Chopin of that day with his fellow-virtuosos Kalkbrenner, Herz, &c.
He, however, acknowledged to me that upon the journeys which the Elector had enabled him to make, he had seldom found in the playing of the most distinguished virtuosos that excellence which he supposed he had a right to expect.
The number of real virtuosos is small, but as regards the orchestral musicians scarcely anything more beautiful is to be heard in the world.
Beethoven," wrote Junker, "confessed that in his journeys he had seldom found in the playing of the most distinguished virtuosos that excellence which he supposed he had a right to expect.
By the latter class many of the distinguished composers and virtuosos resident in the city were taken into the country during the summer to be treated as equals, to live like gentlemen among gentlemen.
He, however, acknowledged to me, that, upon the journeys which the Elector had enabled him to make, he had seldom found in the playing of the most distinguished virtuosos that excellence which he supposed he had a right to expect.
But if Chopin has not turned out virtuosos of the calibre of Tausig and Hans von Bulow, he has nevertheless formed many very clever pianists.
The Parallel will hold through all the Parts of Life and Painting too; and the Virtuosos above-mentioned will be glad to see you draw it with your Terms of Art.
It was found in a Poetical Virtuosos Closet among his Rarities; and since the several Treatises of Thumbs, Ears, and Noses, have obliged the World, this of Eyes is at your Service.
He had already attained a superb rank as a pianist, and of those virtuosos who had then exhibited their talents in Paris no one was considered at all worthy to be compared with Liszt except Chopin.
So it may be said that Pugnani united in himself the schools of Corelli and Tartini, and was thus admirably fitted to be the instructor of that grand player, who was the first in date of the violin virtuosos of modern times, Viotti.
Josef Hofmann, with his tremendous technic and executive skill, has given pleasure to many; and Arthur Whiting, Howard Brockway, and Henry Holden Huss have ably upheld the reputation of American virtuosos and composers.
She was one of that constellation of admirable virtuososwho at that epoch charmed Paris and London; and among whom Madame Pasta, Mad.
It is this more than anything else which gives individuality to the playing of the different virtuosos and makes their efforts so different from the playing of machines.
One must hire an auditorium, hire an orchestra, and, according to some very frank and disgusted young virtuosos who have failed to succeed, hire a critic or so like the amusing Trotter in Fanny's First Play.
What great difficulties do the virtuosos visiting America encounter?
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public.
Some virtuosos regard their well-meaning admirers and entertainers as the worst penalties of the virtuoso life.
Many of the virtuosos find travel in America so distasteful that notwithstanding the huge golden bait, the managers have the greatest difficulty in inducing the pianists to come back.
Some virtuosos actually seem to be born with the heavenly gift.
Unfortunately, the number of virtuososwho have been taught exclusively in America is really very small.
Upon his return that summer from Münster, he brought with him the two virtuosos in question.
Such is the character that the world of virtuosos also bears about the year 1700.
Those old Virtuosos were better proficients in those exercises than modern, who seldom improve higher than cuffing and kicking.
Let Virtuosos in five years be writ, Yet not one thought accuse thy toil of wit.
This is one of the many services of Liszt, the giant of virtuososand a giant among composers, to his art.
Yet a virtuoso's individuality is the very thing that distinguishes him from other virtuosos and attracts the public to his concerts, while those of other players may be poorly attended.
My one quarrel with Von Buelow is that he made it so popular by his frequent playing of it and his exceptionally poetic interpretation of it, that the great virtuosos shun it, very much as they shun the sixth Chopin waltz (Mme.
So I do not set it down in malice against the student or the everyday virtuosos that he--or she--does not attempt it.
The genuine original types of the Rococo, however, the fantastic virtuosos of personality, have, indeed, long since been gathered to their fathers and will not return.
The virtuosos of personality, the strange Rococo original types, were the forbears of the literary Storm and Stress writers, the artistic reformers, the big and little demagogues.
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