zo had ik er nog nooit over nagedacht

[nieske]

"A Chopin étude is inviolate; it moves altogether in the world of piano tone. A Bach fugue is transferable into another set of musical timbres without serious loss of esthetic significance. Chopin plays with the language of the piano as though no other language existed (the medium "disappears"); Bach speaks the language of the piano as a handy means of giving outward expression to a conception wrought in the generalized language of tone."

- Edward Sapir, Language: an introduction to the study of speech (Harcourt),ca. 1972. p. 223.