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“I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.”

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Frederic Chopin

Frederic Chopin was a Polish composer and pianist, renowned for his unique piano compositions and virtuoso playing. His music deeply reflects his emotional world and has had a profound impact on piano music in the following era. more

“Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and if they play a Quodlibet, or jumble of opera, song and dance, the hearers are so overjoyed that they don't know what to do with themselves. It shows the corrupt taste of the Viennese public.”

People Ifs Knows Play Shows Song Pleasure Huge Taste Evening Hotel Concerts Opera Applause Supper Vienna Waltz Song And Dance Overjoyed

Author:Frederic Chopin

“Here, waltzes are called works! And Strauss and Lanner, who play them for dancing, are called Kapellmeistern. This does not mean that everyone thinks like that; indeed, nearly everyone laughs about it; but only waltzes get printed.”

People Thinking Mean Doe Play Laughing Dancing Concerts Printed

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as ever, in a cell with such doors as Paris never had for gates. The cell is the shape of a tall coffin, with an enormous dusty vaulting, a small window... Bach, my scrawls and waste paper - silence - you could scream - there would still be silence. Indeed, I write to you from a strange place.”

“After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.”

People Men Heard Mines Blind Passing Passings Shops Concerts Blind Man Edinburgh

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.”

People Country England Piano Concerts

Author:Frederic Chopin

“Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.”

Evil Habit Angry Libertarian Betrayed Assured

Book:All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

Source: All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

“Here, whatever is not boring is not English.”

People Boring Concerts

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country.”

People Country Dream Piano Concerts Savages Marseille

Author:Frederic Chopin

“England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.”

People Shows Night Morning Flower Music Is England Dinner Boredom Concerts Conventionality

Author:Frederic Chopin

“The question is, do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain?”

Want Play Brain Phones Roulette Russian Roulette