Walker-My_Musical_Ex.. - Walter Cosand

DEPPE AND SCHARWENCKA 145
My readers may possibly remember that it was
Miss Fay's book which sent me to Herr Deppe in the
first instance. And if they have read her book, they
may feel rather surprised at the different ways in
which he expressed himself to her and to the writer
of this Httle book, and may conclude that the present
writer was very little advanced, as Herr Deppe per -
mitted her so very little latitude. It is pretty clear
to me that, at the time when I went to Herr Deppe,
in the Anhalter Strasse, his system must have become
much more formulated than it Was when she paid
her first visit to him in the Koniggratzer Strasse.
For. he allowed her, even in her first lesson, an
amount of freedom which at the present date is never
granted to anyone. It is not so much for my own
sake, as for that of the schools in which I had
studied, and of the musicians under whose guidance
I had worked, that I anticipate the probable rejoinder
to what I have just now said about Deppe. It will
be said, and very naturally too—Miss Pay must have
been far more advanced in pianoforte-playing when
she went to Herr Deppe than was the writer of this
little book.
But I will take Mr. Clarke as an instance. He had
been a concert-player in America ; and when I first
knew him, he had been working under Deppe for a
year and three months with all his might, and during
a third at least of that time he had had the advantage
of constant help from his wife. He had great musical
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