Crossword-Solution: PIANISTIC 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Another man says Beethoven's piano sonatas are not pianistic--with a little effort, perhaps, Beethoven could have become a Thalberg.

Then, after the theme has once more presented itself in a modified form--variant--it comes under the pestle of an extremely figurate coda, which demands the study of an artist, the strength of a robust man--the most vigorous pianistic health, in a word! Tausig overcame this threatening group of terrific difficulties, whose appearance in the piece is well explained by the programme, without the slightest effect.

The working out section is too short and dissonantal, but there is development, perhaps more technical than logical--I mean by this more pianistic than intellectually musical--and we mount with the composer until the B flat version of the second subject is reached, for the first subject, strange to say, does not return.

Musically, it is the most impressive of this extraordinary mastodonic survival of the "pianistic" past.

Liszt, in speaking to me on this subject, simply remarked: "Chopin was unfortunate in his pupils-- none of them has become a player of any importance, although some of his noble pupils played very well." If we compare Liszt's pianistic offspring with Chopin's, the difference is indeed striking.