Walker-My_Musical_Ex.. - Walter Cosand

HENSELT 163
he had thought out for himself while yet a mere boy,
that he was not only able to play the tenths—of
which there are so many in the finale of this sonata
but all the notes that lie between these extreme
intervals, without any semblance of effort. His touch
was deep, and yet he seemed to have the power of
nipping out, whenever he chose to do so, a pianissimo
the timbre of which was at once most penetrating
and yet most exquisitely delicate. In the left-hand
accompaniment of the finale of Weber's sonata his
phrasing was most charming, and he was at great
pains to make his pupil understand exactly what he
wished. Just as this lesson was over there was
another arrival—a gentleman, who walked in silently
and took a seat close by me. I glanced round at him,
and perceived with some amusement that he was the
very Professor Zschocher whom Liszt had introduced
to me on the day he paid me a visit at the Kron
Prinz Hotel in Weimar. We just smiled a recog-
nition at each other ; and Henselt, in rising from the
piano, perceived him, and, after exchanging a very
cordial greeting, they got at once into a most ani-
mated discussion. It was about a new edition of
Moscheles' Studies, which Henselt was eager to see
in print without delay ; and he worked himself into a
state of the greatest excitement as he inveighed
against the slowness and nonchalance of his pub-
lishers. As he seemed to have entirely forgotten that
I was there, I had all the more opportunity of ob-
—