excerpt from 'My Musical Life' pp. 618 (69 words)
excerpt from 'My Musical Life' pp. 618 (69 words)
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He was only twelve when he played for the first time at the Italian Opera, and one of those singular incidents which remind one of PAGANINI'S triumphs occurred. At the close of a bravura cadenza the band forgot to come in, so absorbed were the musicians in watching the young prodigy. Their failure was worth a dozen successes to LISZT. The ball of the marvellous was fairly set rolling.
He was only twelve when he played for the first time at the Italian Opera, and one of those singular incidents which remind one of PAGANINI'S triumphs occurred. At the close of a bravura cadenza the band forgot to come in, so absorbed were the musicians in watching the young prodigy. Their failure was worth a dozen successes to LISZT. The ball of the marvellous was fairly set rolling. |
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