Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
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Dying of tuberculosis The earth is suffocating.... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.Frederic Chopin
Liszt commenting on the music of Frederic Chopin He confided ... those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions.
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