Walker-My_Musical_Ex.. - Walter Cosand

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taking place). I remember that Eeisenauer played^
among other pieces, Marche Macalyre, St. Saens
Tarantelle from the Muette di Portici, and Liszt's
First Concerto. Silotti played the Carneval de Pesth,
the Zigeuner Reigen (Tausig), Chopin's First Scherzo,
and the Pdtmeurs, while Mademoiselle Eanus-
chewitz seemed to have an endless repertoire, and a
wonderful faculty of being always ready to play every-
one else's pieces beside her own. Once, in playing
the Pdtmeurs, she broke her nail in doing the glis-
sando, which Liszt told her to make three times
instead of twice as it is printed. She made a wry
face, and Liszt asked her what was the matter. She
replied that she had broken her nail. He seemed
highly amused, and said, as if he really enjoyed the
notion of making us all see that a broken nail ought
never to be an excuse for pausing in a performance,
'Well, what of that? Go on, my child.' Liszt was
very fond of Katy Eanuschewitz, and was constantly
laying his hand on her head, as if in affectionate
paternal approval.
And Liszt himself, though he only played fragments
of the pieces brought to him by the young pianists,
and usually but a few bars of these fragments, was
indeed a dazzling sun, that shone with a radiance
before which all the younger talents, like so many
stars, paled into insignificance. He gave one the
impression of possessing an almost terrible mastery
over every imaginable variety of passage—especially
;