Looking for a quote on Chopin's preludes...

[everran]

I'm giving a friend Ohlsson's recording of Chopin's Op. 45 for her birthday, and there's a certain remark a critic made I wanted to include in the box. It went something like this: "If I could preserve one piece of music to represent humanity, it would be Chopin's preludes."

Does anyone have the exact quote? 

[mjames]

Chopin's preludes are a set of pieces.


and to answer you question...IDK

[j_menz]

"if all piano music in the world were to be destroyed, excepting one collection, my vote should be cast for Chopin's Preludes." - Henry Finck

[mjames]

"if all piano music in the world were to be destroyed, excepting one collection, my vote should be cast for Chopin's Preludes." - Henry Finck

To be honest, I don't think I'd be able to answer that question.

[chopinlover01]

I can. It would be the set of all the works written for the piano 

[mjames]

I can. It would be the set of all the works written for the piano  

I think some works have earned the right to be erased from history.

Like your boy Chopin's fugue:

Yikes! I wouldn't want to publish that either.

[chopinlover01]

I actually like the fugue. But, he didn't publish it for a reason. We all have our experiments in the past we'd rather forget.

[j_menz]

Ashkenazy does rather a hatchet job on it, to be fair. Please consider:

[everran]

I think some works have earned the right to be erased from history.

Chopin is the greatest composer we got! Historical consensus be damned; Liszt and Schumann would have given their left hands to be Chopin.