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...Beethoven's graceful and pensive Bagatelle for Therese Malfatti, the 18-year-old niece of his doctor; Wagner's Ankunft bei den Schwarzen Schwänen (Arrival at the Black Swans), which sounds a little like Tristan und Isolde as written by Frédéric Chopin...
Bach, Mozart, Ravel and Chopin, and to absorbing Italian verse during hours of relaxation. During his teens, Michelangeli lived in a monastery for one year during a bout with tuberculosis, still withdraws there when the world presses too close...
...young woman who was both an enthusiastic tennis player and the outstanding U.S. interpreter of Chopin went to see Perrin Thacher Wilson, a Boston doctor of osteopathy. She had some bursitis in her shoulder. Possibly caused and aggravated by tennis, it interfered with her piano playing. Dr. Wilson gave her treatment that he calls "scientific adjustment," won her devotion as a steady patient...
...students, workers, peasants, elderly men and women of Pasternak's own generation. There were even some writers who braved official displeasure: Novelist Konstantin Paustovsky, Children's Author Kornei Chukovsky and, through his wife, Ilya Ehrenburg. Sviatoslav Richter, Russia's finest pianist, played slow dirges and the Chopin melodies that Pasternak had loved...
...soundproofing!1' groans another embittered tenant. "Somebody above wakes me up every morning playing Chopin on the piano." Adds Fran Weiss: "When the guy next door says to his wife, 'Roll over,' I roll over...