Walker-My_Musical_Ex.. - Walter Cosand

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that !' And another time, when a pupil had come
down with too hard an emphasis, he exclaimed in
anger, ' You just come in there with the tramp of a
trooper !'
It was a truly instructive summer, for besides
having a lesson from him once every week, I had
the advantage of being present at the lessons of two
other pupils who also played to him every week.
He taught one lady Weber's Concert Stuck ; and I
have heard him play it several times, though never
the whole at a time.
His playing of Weber's Momenta Capricioso was a
marvel of delicate elastic tones, and he observed him-
self, after playing it (I entered it in my note-book at
the time), ' It is not a question of hearing either nail,
or bone, or flesh, but pure tone.'
It was one of Henselt's peculiarities that he would
listen to the practice of a pupil, if he got the chance
of doing so, and if he considered that the work was
being done without conscience, he would observe the
next time the pupil was playiag to him, ' No wonder
that you have not conquered that difficulty ;
been working with so little method.'
you have
If you had practised the piece with both hands at
the same time, instead of studying with each hand
separately, he invariably perceived it, and would tell
you so, and that in very plain language. If technical
drill had been relaxed even for a few days, and yet the
pieces seemed to be going well, he would suddenly