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.