"Ponderosity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for the piano, adapted to drawing-room use technical devices of his day, and in his "Songs without Words" gave a decisive short-story form to piano literature. His playing is described as possessing an organ firmness of touch without organ ponderosity, and having an expression that moved deeply without intoxicating. Living in genial surroundings, he was never forced to struggle, and although he climbed through flowery paths, he never reached the goal he longed for until his ...
— For Every Music Lover - A Series of Practical Essays on Music • Aubertine Woodward Moore |
