 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 512 sider
...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 - 1812 - 510 sider
...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 - 1814 - 470 sider
...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 - 1812 - 516 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | 1833 - 1094 sider
...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 sider
...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 - 1854 - 1020 sider
...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 sider
...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 - 1866 - 552 sider
...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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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 whenever I please, according to my disposition, and that of my... 
