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But all this will be in the days to come when the flat keyboard
will be superseded by a Janko many-banked clavier contrivance,
when Mr. Krehbiel's oriental srootis are in use and Mr. Apthorp's
nullitonic order, no key at all, is invented. Then too a new
Chopin may be born, but I doubt it.
Despite his idiomatic treatment of the piano it must be
remembered that Chopin under Sontag's and Paganini's influence
imitated both voice and violin on the keyboard. His lyricism is
most human, while the portamento, the slides, trills and
indescribably subtle turns--are they not of the violin? Wagner
said to Mr. Dannreuther--see Finck's "Wagner and his Works"--that
"Mozart's music and Mozart's orchestra are a perfect match; an
equally perfect balance exists between Palestrina's choir and
Palestrina's counterpoint, and I find a similar correspondence
between Chopin's piano and some of his Etudes and Preludes--I do
not care for the Ladies' Chopin; there is too much of the
Parisian salon in that, but he has given us many things which are
above the salon.


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