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Letter "H" » Handel
«The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Keywords:
addicted,
Brahms,
dressing,
Handel,
intolerable,
prolonged,
sentimental,
tiresomely,
Voluptuaries,
voluptuary
«It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.»
«If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt?rateur, or a musical confectioner, or a painter of fans with cupids and cocottes. Handel had power.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Playwright)
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Keywords:
at best,
Best A,
confectioner,
confectioners,
Cupids,
decorative,
Handel,
musical style,
stroke
«Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Keywords:
builds,
carves,
Columbus,
Handel,
paints,
Phidias,
Raphael,
Watt,
Watts,
wren,
wrens,
writing arm