“Simplicity is everything. After having exhausted all the difficulties, after having played immense quantities of notes, and more notes, then simplicity emerges with all its charm, like art’s final seal. Whoever wants to obtain this immediately will never achieve it: you can’t begin with the end. One has to have studied a lot, tremendously, to reach this goal; it’s no easy matter.’107 Chopin/Streicher/Niecks, II, p. 342”
― Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by his Pupils
― Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by his Pupils
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