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The style evinces, for the first time in his piano music, the striking orchestral character of his thought -- yet the writing is not, paradoxical as it may seem, unpianistic.
Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908
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It was no doubt an instinctive antipathy to Beethoven's unpianistic style (if the adjective be permissible), which prevented Chopin from admiring Beethoven as deeply as he did some other composers, whom he would have admitted to be his inferiors.
Chopin and Other Musical Essays Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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The style evinces, for the first time in his piano music, the striking orchestral character of his thought ” yet the writing is not, paradoxical as it may seem, unpianistic.
Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908
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