Sounds and Sweet Airs by Anna Beer

Author:Anna Beer
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2016-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

She seized upon the spirit of the composition and its innermost fibres, which then radiated out most forcefully into the souls of the singers and audience. A sforzando from her small finger affected us like an electric shock, transporting us much further than the wooden tapping of a baton on a music stand. When one saw Fanny Hensel perform a masterpiece, she seemed larger. Her forehead shone, her features were ennobled, and one believed in seeing the most lovely shapes . . . No common feeling could have possessed her; she must have been contemplating and breathing in the realm of the sublime and beautiful. Even her sharp critical judgements shared with close acquaintances were founded on ideals she demanded from art and human character alike – not in impure motives of exclusion, arrogance and resentment. Whoever knew her was convinced that she was as ungrudging as she was unpretentious.

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