Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin

Nature does not design like art, however realistic she may be. She has caprices, inconsequences, probably not real, but very misterious. Art only rectifies these inconsequences, because it is too limited to reproduce them. Chopin was a resume of these inconsequences which God alone can allow Himself to create, and which have their particular logic. he was modest on principle, gentle by habit, but he was imperious by instinct and full of a legitimate pride which was unconscious of itself. hence arose sufferings which he did not reason and which did not fix themselves on a determined object.
George Sand in "The Story of my life"

After eight years of courtship and great expectations his heart broke. With no muse by his side his lonely existence encountered death at the age of forty.

"(14) Leopold Mozart to Lorenz Hagenauer, Salzburg
[Extract]


MAINZ, 3 August 1763

From Schwetzingen we drove to Heidelberg in order to see the castle and the great tun.

On the whole Heidelberg is very like Salzburg, that is to say, as to its situation. The fallen-in doors and walls in teh castle, which are amazing to see, show the sad fruits of the late French wars. In the Church of the Holy Ghost, which is famous in history on account of the struggle between the Catholics and the Calvinists, which led the Electors to transfer their residence to Mannheim, our Wolfgang so astonished everyone by his playing on the organ that by order of the Town Magistrate his name was inscribed with full particulars on it as a perpetual remembrance, After receiving a present of fifteen louis d'or we came on from Schwetzingen through Worms to Mainz.

In Mannheim a French colonel presented a little ring to Nannerl an a pretty toothpick case to little Wolfgang."

from the Letters to Mozart and his family, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, London. 1985

A horse walked into a bar...

Welcome to the Musician's Bar, an unnoticed rusty door in the dark alleyway of todays everyday routine. Creative minds rest and find themselves surrounded by one subject of conversation in this perdition space: music.

Feel free to walk around, take a beer or two, or simply seat in a corner as you spy on other musicians minds. Write your ideas, doubts, experiences (good or bad) and knowledge you have acquired throughout your life as a musician, after all...who will understand but us?

Enjoy.