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Schumann is the most representative musical figure of central European Romanticism as much because of his limitations as because of his genius: in hi… - Charles Rosen
" "Schumann is the most representative musical figure of central European Romanticism as much because of his limitations as because of his genius: in his finest works, indeed, he exploited these limitations in such a way that they gave a force to his genius that no other contemporary could attain.
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Charles Welles Rosen (May 5, 1927 – December 9, 2012) was an American pianist and writer on music.
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The etude is a Romantic idea. It appeared in the early nineteenth century as a new genre: a short piece in which the musical interest is derived almost entirely from a single technical problem. A mechanical difficulty directly produces the music, its charm, and its pathos. Beauty and technique are united, but the creative stimulus is the hand, with its arrangement of muscles and tendons, its idiosyncratic shape.
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