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Show HEINE'S TRIBUTE TO CHOPIN Great Writer Has Left Testimony of. His High Admiration for World-Famous World-Famous Musician. Chopin was born in Poland of French parents, . but received part of his education in Germany. The influence in-fluence of the three nationalities affect af-fect his personality to an extent that is very remarkable. He has, in short, appropriated the best characteristics of each ; Poland has bequeathed to him chivalrous tendencies, her historical histor-ical sorrows ; France, her delicate i grace. 'her charm; Germany, her profound pro-found romanticism. .... For the rest, nature has given him ... a noble heart, and genius. Yes, genius, in the full acceptation of the term, must be allowed to Chopin. He is not virtuoso only, he is also a poet, he can make us apprehend the poetry which lives in his heart, he is a "tone-poet," "tone-poet," and no enjoyment is equal to that which he bestows upon us when he sits down at the piano and improvises. impro-vises. Then he Is neither Polish, nor French, nor Gorman ; he betrays a higher origin, he is of the kindred of Mozart, of Raphael, of Goethe; his true fatherland is the dream kingdom of Poetry. Heine. |