This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...and others"--notably Haydn, Liszt, and Chopin. Comparing Grieg with Chopin, in the Looker-on, Joakim Reinhard uses a poetic simile which, more than pages of analysis, explains the charm of the mixture of individuality and nationality we find in these composers: "While the genius of Chopin is as rich and original as ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...and others"--notably Haydn, Liszt, and Chopin. Comparing Grieg with Chopin, in the Looker-on, Joakim Reinhard uses a poetic simile which, more than pages of analysis, explains the charm of the mixture of individuality and nationality we find in these composers: "While the genius of Chopin is as rich and original as that of Grieg, the latter has more of what the Germans call 'Naturlaute, ' sounds of Nature. This should not be understood as though the Norwegian were a less conscious and consummate artist than the Pole--far from it. Only he works in material of quite another kind. The difference is one of deeper significance than one of mere training or style. Thus both composers are intensely national in the sense that the peculiar rhythms and harmonious modulations of the folkmusic of their respective peoples lie at the root of their work, flowing through it as the sap of a wildtrunk flows through a twig of a rare and highly cultivated fruit tree that has been grafted upon it. But Chopin loves unhappy Poland in an elegiac, hopelessly yearning way: Grieg is jubilantly proud of the defiant, aggressive country on whose soil he was born. To be sure, gloom and melancholy may occasionally thrive in the deep shadows of Norway's mountains, and that, too, has been embodied by Grieg in his music. But, unlike Chopin, he has always been too virile to allow his soul to drift along aimlessly on the dark waters of despair, --with a sort of voluptuous feeling of total self-abandonment." CHAPTER IX Last Years, Death, And Funeral GRIEG'S sixtieth birthday, on June 15, 1903, was celebrated not only in the cities of Scandinavia, but throughout Europe and America, many concerts being devoted entirely or partly to a commemoration of the event. Bjornson delivered one ...
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