So does
Klindworth, although F sharp may be found in some editions. On
the last page, second bar, first line, Kullak writes the passage
beginning with E flat in eighth notes, Klindworth in sixteenths.
The close is very striking, full of the splendors of glancing
scales and shrill octave progressions. "It would inspire a poet
to write words to it," said Robert Schumann.
"Perhaps the most touching of all that Chopin has written is the
tale of the F major Ballade. I have witnessed children lay aside
their games to listen thereto. It appears like some fairy tale
that has become music. The four-voiced part has such a clearness
withal, it seems as if warm spring breezes were waving the lithe
leaves of the palm tree. How soft and sweet a breath steals over
the senses and the heart!"
And how difficult it seems to be to write of Chopin except in
terms of impassioned prose! Louis Ehlert, a romantic in feeling
and a classicist in theory, is the writer of the foregoing. The
second Ballade, although dedicated to Robert Schumann, did not
excite his warmest praise.
Pages:
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291
292
293
294
295
296