excerpt from 'Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character' pp. 191-192 (84 words)
excerpt from 'Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character' pp. 191-192 (84 words)
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When, nearly forty years ago — having been severely trained by an unflinching classicist...it fell to my lot to be taken about a good deal to public concerts and private musical parties in green velvet, cut-steel buttons, and a lace collar, airs with variations were all the vogue on the platform and in the salon. Compositions of this class by Henri Herz, Cramer, Chaidieu, Czemy, Kalkbrenner, Moscheles, Kuhlau, Osborne, and many others of less note, were played everywhere with amazing perseverance and relish. |
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