excerpt from 'Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character' pp. 195 (113 words)
excerpt from 'Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character' pp. 195 (113 words)
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Another incident, haud obliviscari took place that evening. He [Mendelsohnn] made me play a Bach prelude to him, with cold perspiration running down my back and in such an agony of nervousness as I have never since been called upon to fight against — I was only nine years old and extremely sensitive — and, when my terrible ordeal had come to an end, patted my head, kissed me between the eyes, and said: "Little fellow, you were born a musician, and will play the piano some day." I doubt whether that night there was another so happy and proud a boy as I within the confines of Her Most Gracious Majesty's realms. |
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