Sigismund Thalberg

Sigismund Thalberg is a pianist and Austrian type-setter born with Geneva the January 7th 1812 and died with Naples the April 27th 1871.

Quotations

If he is almost forgotten today, Thalberg was an immense success of pianist in Europe of the 19th century. In spite of that, Thalberg received only praises at its time and in particular by the largest pianists of the beginning of XIXe.

Chopin: " Thalberg plays excellently, but it is not my man. he plays the strong one and the pianos with the pedal, but not with the hand, fact of the tenth as easily as I make the octaves, and carries buttons of diamond shirt. "

- " Thalberg is the first pianist of the world, Liszt is only the " (quotation of a " woman of esprit" - " life of Franz Liszt by Guy de Pourtalès. p.75)

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