| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 512 pages
...of a perfect master. Dr. Burney gives the following character of his compositions and performance. " His compositions were easy and elegantly simple ; for he used to say, ' I do not choose to be always struggling with difficulties, and playing with all my might. I make my pieces difficult... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 510 pages
...of a perfect master. Dr. Burney gives the following character of his compositions and performance. "His compositions were easy and elegantly simple ; for he used to say, ' I do not choose to be always struggling with difficulties, and playing with all my might. I make my pieces difficult... | |
| Allatson Burgh - Music - 1814 - 470 pages
...a judgment, so correct and comprehensive, as never to let a single note escape him without meaning. His compositions were easy, and elegantly simple ; for he used to say, " I do not choose to be " always struggling with difficulties, and playing with " all my might. I make my pieces... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 516 pages
...a perfect master. Dr. Biirney gives the following character of his compositions and performance. " His compositions were easy and elegantly simple ; for he used to say, ' I do not choose to be always struggling with difficulties, and flaying with all my might. I make my pieces difficult... | |
| 1833 - 540 pages
...principally by means of his adagios, or slow movements. ' His compositions,' Dr. Burney tells us, ' were easy and elegantly simple; for he used to say, "I do not choose to be always struggling with difficulties, and playing with all my might." In nothing w.ns he... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 1094 pages
...principally by means of his adagios, or slow movements. • His compositions,' Dr. Burney tells us, 'were easy and elegantly simple ; for he used to say, " I do not choose to be always struggling with difficulties, and playing with all my might." In nothing was he... | |
| 1838 - 1056 pages
...the 20th, 1787. Dr. Burney gives the following character of his compositions and performance: — " His compositions were easy and elegantly simple ; for he used to say, ' I do not choose to be always struggling with difficulties, and playing with all my might. I make my pieces difficult... | |
| John Weeks Moore - Music - 1854 - 1020 pages
...performance : " His compositions were easy and elegantly simple, for lie used to say, ' I do not choose to be always struggling with difficulties and playing...and to other musicians, as in writing and playing adagios, in which the most pleasing, yet learned modulation, the richest harmony, and the most elegant... | |
| 1864 - 644 pages
...idolatry.' His compositions were easy and elegantly simple, for he often declared, ' I do not choose to be always struggling with difficulties, and playing with all my might. I make my pieces difficult/whenever I please, according to my disposition and that of my audience.' He was deeply learned... | |
| Charles Knight - Biography - 1866 - 552 pages
...principally by means of his adagios, or slow movements. " His compositions," Dr. Bumey tells us, " were easy and elegantly simple ; for he used to say, ' I do not choose to be always struggling with difficulties, and playing with all my might.' " In nothing was... | |
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