As is usually the case with the Slavs, it was difficult to read the recesses of his mind. A thousand subtle shades, mingling, crossing, contradicting and disguising each other, rendered it almost undecipherable at a first view. ![]() His character was indeed not easily understood. ![]() – James Huneker (1860-1921)ĭeeply regretted as he may be by the whole body of artists, lamented by all who have ever known him, we must still be permitted to doubt if the time has even yet arrived in which he, whose loss is so peculiarly deplored by ourselves, can be appreciated in accordance with his just value, or occupy thathigh rank which in all probability will be assigned him in the future. Chopin’s violence was psychic, a travailing and groaning of the spirit the bright roughness of adventure was missing from his quotidian existence. Gustave Flaubert, pessimist and master of cadenced lyric prose, urged young writers to lead ascetic lives that in their art they might be violent. – Ludwig Rellstab (in Iris, A weekly periodical for ’sophisticated readers,’ Berlin August 2nd 1833). We implore Mr Chopin to return to nature. Where Field smiles, Chopin makes a grinning grimace where Field sighs, Chopin groans where Field shrugs his shoulders, Chopin arches his back like a cat, where Field puts some seasoning into the food, Chopin empties a handful of cayenne pepper… In short, if one holds Field’s charming romances before a distorting, concave mirror, so that every delicate impression becomes a coarse one, one gets Chopin’s work. ![]() – Julian Tuwim (Polish poet, 1894 – 1953) My adoration for him continued to grow, and still does so, and I regard Chopin to be the most magnificent phenomenon not only in the history of Polish poetry but in global art as a whole. Incomparable genius whom the heavens envied the Earth – Eugene Delacroix (French Romantic painter, 1798-1863)Ĭhopin was the greatest artistic shock which I experienced.
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