Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1919 — HEINE’S'TRIBUTE TO CHOPIN [ARTICLE]

HEINE’S'TRIBUTE TO CHOPIN

Qreat Writer Has Left Testimony of His High Admiration for WorldFamous Musician. Chopin was born in Poland of French parents, but received part of his education in Germany. The influence of the three nationalities affect his personality to an extent that is very remarkable. He has, “In short, appropriated the best characteristics of each; Poland has bequeathed to him chivalmua_teml£iicles. herJhiatfl.&L ical sorrows; France, her delicate

grace, her charm; Germany, her profound 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 “tonepoet, *’ and n 9 enjoyment is equal to that which he bestows upon us when he sits down at the piano and improvises. Then he is neither Polish, nor French, nor German; 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.