Word: cise
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...power was awesome, his speed be yond belief, his touch so delicately pre cise that he could transform the most complicated passages into washes of pure color. And yet technique was not an end in itself; Busoni invariably sub ordinated pianistic skill to musical mean ing. Passion and intelligence were reconciled in sensibility, and in the last years of his life, says Busoni's biographer Ed ward Dent, his performances reflected "the spirit of a seer and visionary" and achieved a "grandeur" amounting to "prophetic inspiration...