Alan Walker
Born
in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, The United Kingdom
April 06, 1930
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“It was the same with Chopin’s old compatriot Józef Nowakowski, a former composition student of Elsner’s at the Warsaw High School for Music, who had planned to travel down to Nohant and be reunited with Chopin.”
― Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
― Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
“By leaving the organization of his concerts to others, Liszt sometimes fell victim to amusing errors. He once played in Marseille and included in the programme his arrangement of Schubert’s “La Truite” (“The Trout”). Owing to a printing error the piece appeared as “La Trinité,” and the unsuspecting audience sat through this bubbling music with quasi-religious reverence. When Liszt realized the mistake he got up from the piano and made an impromptu speech, asking the audience not to confuse the mysterious idea of the Trinity with Schubert’s trout, a helpful interjection which caused great hilarity.”
― Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847
― Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847
“He also became better acquainted with Czerny, who invited him to his house to play some music for two pianofortes. “He is a good fellow, but nothing more,” Chopin remarked of the renowned pedagogue. And he added the revealing comment, “There is more feeling in Czerny himself than in all his compositions.”
― Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
― Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
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