Emily Brontë was possibly the most talented and certainly the most determined musician in a family where music was greatly appreciated and encouraged.  She was not simply musical, but a serious student of music, in a way that (as some writers have suggested) influenced her artistic development.  According to Ellen Nussey [Brontë’s life-long friend] she was a virtuoso pianist… […]  Above all, in a deep and complex sense, 'musical' is the term that most aptly characterizes her creative spirit.