Quotes About Chopin
"Chopin is full of health and strength; all the French women are after him, and all the French men are jealous. He is the rage; the world will soon see people wearing new-fashioned gloves - gloves à la Chopin."--Unknown
"We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart."--Robert Schumann
"There is something fundamentally personal and at the same time so very masterly in his playing that he may be called a really perfect virtuoso."--Felix Mendelssohn
"Hats off gentlemen, a genius!"--Robert Schumann
"Chopin is a pianist of conviction. He composes for himself, plays for himself... and everyone listens with interest, with delight, with infinite pleasure... Nothing indeed equals the lightness and sweetness of his preluding on the piano, nothing compares with his works in originality, distinction and grace. Chopin is unique as a pianist - he should not and cannot be compared with anyone."--La France Musicale
"Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation."--Karol Mikuli, pupil of Chopin
"The marvellous charm, the poetry and originality, the perfect freedom and absolute lucidity of Chopin's playing cannot be described. It is perfection in every sense."--C.E. and M. Halle
"He would lock himself up in his room for whole days, weeping, pacing back and forth, breaking his pens, repeating or changing one bar a hundred times, writing and erasing as many times, and beginning again the next day with an infinite and desperate perseverance. He sometimes spent six weeks on one page, only in the end to write it exactly as he had sketched at the first draft."--George Sand
"Here is a young man, abandoning himself to his natural impressions and without taking a model, has found, if not a complete renewal of pianoforte music, at least a part of what has been sought in vain for a long time - namely an abundance of original ideas of which the type is to be found nowhere."--Revue Musicale, 3rd of March, 1832
"After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own."--Oscar Wilde, 1891
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