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Visual delight, sentiment, and exploration become one in the new appreciation of landscape and Nature.

— Charles Rosen The Romantic Generation (1995)

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None of Chopin's contemporaries could rival him for the variety and effectiveness of his treatment of the return.

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Understanding music simply means not being irritated or puzzled by it.

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Schumann's humor is rarely either witty or light: the unrealizable musical structure, the musical motto hidden and partly inaudible, must have stirred his musical fantasy.

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Liszt has never needed revival; his music has always been an important part of the concert repertoire. Nevertheless, he has appeared to need rehabilitation.

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