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[This excerpt appeared in Der Virtuose by Adolf Weissmann, Berlin, Paul Cassirer, 1920, page 172. I am not a professional translator and will appreciate suggested improvements to my translation.
This web version is dated 16 August 2005 2004.]

The Virtuoso

Der Virtuose

by Adolf Weissmann
English translation © Nigel Nettheim (2005)

Adolf Weissmann
p.172 [. . . Emil Sauer . . . his attitude, that of the genuine virtuoso . . .] S.172 [. . . Emil Sauer . . . seine Haltung, die des echten Virtuosen . . .]
     Polish culture, that delivered to us in the Chopin player Vladimir de Pachmann an artist of enchanting loveliness in non-legato playing and at the same time one who revived the art of the comical in the strangest manner, and thus a reminiscence of genuine virtuosity, showed its fertility once again in Leopold Godowsky.      Das Polentum, das in dem Chopinspieler Wladimir von Pachmann einen Künstler von zauberhaftem Reiz des Nonlegato-Spiels und zugleich einen Erneuerer seltsamsten Komödiantentums, also einen Nachklang echten Virtuosentums zu uns entsandte, zeigte sich nochmals fruchtbar in Leopold Godowsky.