10:--
"Those who have distorted fingers may put them right by
practising these studies; but those who have not, should not play
them, at least not without having a surgeon at hand." What
incredible surgery would have been needed to get within the skull
of this narrow critic any savor of the beauty of these
compositions! In the years to come the Chopin studies will be
played for their music, without any thought of their technical
problems.
Now the young eagle begins to face the sun, begins to mount on
wind-weaving pinions. We have reached the last study of op. 10,
the magnificent one in C minor. Four pages suffice for a
background upon which the composer has flung with overwhelming
fury the darkest, the most demoniac expressions of his nature.
Here is no veiled surmise, no smothered rage, but all sweeps
along in tornadic passion. Karasowski's story may be true
regarding the genesis of this work, but true or not, it is one of
the greatest dramatic outbursts in piano literature. Great in
outline, pride, force and velocity, it never relaxes its grim
grip from the first shrill dissonance to the overwhelming chordal
close.
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