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moment his back was presented, Chopin at the keyboard was mocking
him. It was then Chopin told Sand of his pupil, Georges Mathias,
"c'est une bonne caboche." Thalberg took his revenge whenever he
could. After a concert by Chopin he astonished Hiller by shouting
on the way home. In reply to questions he slily answered that he
needed a forte as he had heard nothing but pianissimo the entire
evening!
Chopin was never a hearty partisan of the Romantic movement. Its
extravagance, misplaced enthusiasm, turbulence, attacks on
church, state and tradition disturbed the finical Pole while
noise, reclame and boisterousness chilled and repulsed him. He
wished to be the Uhland of Poland, but he objected to smashing
idols and refused to wade in gutters to reach his ideal. He was
not a fighter, yet as one reviews the past half century it is his
still small voice that has emerged from the din, the golden voice
of a poet and not the roar of the artistic demagogues of his day.
Liszt's influence was stimulating, but what did not Chopin do for
Liszt? Read Schumann.


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