Just As We Did Twenty Years Ago, We
Shall Agree All At Once, I Am Certain, In The Generality Of
Cases; And, More Than We Were Then, Shall We Each Of Us Be In A
Position To Make Further Steps Forward In The Exoteric Region Of
Art.
- For the present allow me, at the risk of often repeating
myself hereafter, to compliment you most sincerely on your
volume, which will be a chosen book and a work of predilection
for people of taste, and particularly for those who feel and
understand music.
Artists and amateurs, professors and pupils,
critics and virtuosi; composers and theorists - all will have
something to gain from it, and a part to take in this feast of
attractive instruction that you have prepared for them. What
ingenious traits, what living touches, what well-dealt blows,
what new and judiciously adapted imagery should I not have to
quote, were I to enter in detail into your pages, so different
from what one usually reads on similar subjects! In your
arguments, and in the intrinsic and extrinsic proofs you adduce,
what weight - without heaviness, what solidity - without stiffness,
of strong and wholesome criticism - without pedantry! Ideas are
plentiful in this by turns incisive, brilliant, reflected, and
spontaneous style, in which learning comes in to enhance and
steady the flow of a lively and luxuriant imagination. To all the
refinement and subtle divination common to Slavic genius, you
ally the patient research and learned scruples which characterize
the German explorer.
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