The Score:
But people rarely talk about that part of Chopin. Pianists will sometimes mention it in offhand moments. But it's not the officially important part that we're supposed to study and appreciate and write books about. The art culture I grew up in— that of Western Europe and its American kin- mostly just ignores the beauty of process, the beauty of doing. It ignores how the performance feels to the performer, on the inside. You never see a review of a ballet that says
"Well, it sure looked beautiful, but, man, it must have been pure torture for the dancers."
RESULTS! And hopefully, I don’t muddy the argument, but the process does show up in the results.