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Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician

CHAPTER VII
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Mr.Chopin gave to-day so much pleasure to a small audience that one cannot help wishing he may at another performance play before a larger one....
Although the critic of the Wiener Theaterzeitung is more succinct in his report (September 1, 1829) of the second concert, he is not less complimentary.

Chopin as a composer as well as an executant justified on this occasion the opinion previously expressed about him.
He is a young man who goes his own way, and knows how to please in this way, although his style of playing and writing differs greatly from that of other virtuosos; and, indeed chiefly in this, that the desire to make good music predominates noticeably in his case over the desire to please.

Also to-day Mr.Chopin gave general satisfaction.
These expressions of praise are so enthusiastic that a suspicion might possibly arise as to their trustworthiness.

But this is not the only laudatory account to be found in the Vienna papers.

Der Sammler, for instance, remarked: "In Mr.Chopin we made the acquaintance of one of the most excellent pianists, full of delicacy and deepest feeling." The Wiener Zeitschrift fur Kunst, Literatur, Theater und Mode, too, had appreciative notices of the concerts.
He executes the greatest difficulties with accuracy and precision, and renders all passages with neatness.


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