excerpt from 'Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character' pp. 194 (64 words)
excerpt from 'Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character' pp. 194 (64 words)
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[B]ut the one who most deeply and enduringly impressed me was Mendelssohn, whom I had the supreme good fortune to hear and see extemporise at great length in the house of a gifted friend — alas one long since dead; being privileged to stand the while by the piano and watch the magician's fingers casting their spells upon the subjugated and responsive keys. |
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