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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1909 Excerpt: ... XXVII HINTS TO PUPILS, SINGERS, AND PLAYERS Gen1us, Work, And Overwork Carlyle's definition of genius as a "transcendent capacity of taking trouble" is pronounced "incredibly stupid" by Herbert Spencer, who holds that in reality genius is quite the opposite, being the ability to do with little trouble that which cannot be done by an ordinary person with any amount of trouble. There is an amusing story about Donizetti, who, when he heard that Rossini had written The Barber of Seville in two weeks, remarked: "I can quite believe it; he always was a lazy fellow." No ordinary composer could have written an immortal opera like that in two years, or two decades, no matter how hard he worked. Work cannot take the place of genius. Yet genius without work is helpless, and practically nonexistent. As Rubinstein remarked: "Talent, even genius, will not go far without application. Without talent, but gifted with application, it is quite the contrary. Thus it is that genius slowly fades away, while the worker, in time, makes his work known." Alexander McArthur relates that a pupil once said to Rubinstein regarding Beethoven's sonata, Opus 53: "I don't need to practise it--I know it thoroughly. It is only a waste of time to practise it more." One of his saddest expressions came over Rubinstein's face, for there was never a master that lived as he did in the work of his pupils. "Don't you?" he said slowly. "Well, you are eighteen and I am sixty. I have been half a century practising that sonata, and I need still to practise it. I congratulate you." From that time on he took no further interest in that pupil. The same great pianist (or was it Hans von Biilow?) said: "If I neglect my practising one day I know it; if two days, my friends know it; if three days, the public kn...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150382505
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 136
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150382503
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 254 gr

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