excerpt from 'Music-Study in Germany: The Classic Memoir of the Romantic Era' pp. 286-287 (95 words)
excerpt from 'Music-Study in Germany: The Classic Memoir of the Romantic Era' pp. 286-287 (95 words)
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Accordingly on the following Wednesday I presented myself [to Herr Capelmeister Deppe]... I took off my things and began to play to him. He listened quietly, and without interrupting me. When I had finished he told me that my difficulties were principally mechanical ones—that I had conception and style, but that my execution was uneven and hurried, my wrist stiff, the third and fourth fingers very weak, the tone not full and round enough, that I did not know how to use the pedal, and finally, that I was too nervous and flurried. |
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