Vienna Is A Handsome, Lively City, And

Chopin Was The First Piano Composer Who Knew Exactly How To Make Piano Sound Reach Fullness, Radiance And Grandness. What To Regard And What, By All Means, To Avoid. Chopin Was Keenly Aware Of The Overtones And He Did Take Care Of Them So Artfully.

I Am Not Fitted To Give Concerts. The Audience Intimidates Me, I Feel Choked By Its Breath, Paralyzed By Its Curious Glances, Struck Dumb By All Those Strange Faces.

I Am Gay On The Outside, Especially Among My Own Folk (i Count Poles My Own); But Inside Something Gnaws At Me; Some Presentiment, Anxiety, Dreams - Or Sleeplessness - Melancholy, Indifference - Desire For Life, And The Next Instant, Desire For Death; Some Kind Of Sweet Peace, Some Kind Of Numbness, Absent-mindedness.

Put All Your Soul Into It, Play The Way You Feel!

I Haven't Heard Anything So Great For A Long Time; Beethoven Snaps His Fingers At The Whole World.