Walker-My_Musical_Ex.. - Walter Cosand

2So MY MUSICAL EXPEDIENCES
printed by Breitkopf and Hartel, and the present little
paper will be included in a work just published by the
same firm, ' The Classical and Eomantic in the
World of Tone.' Professor Eiist, of Leipzig, said to
me in reference to La Mara, that she was more
thoroughly acquainted with her subject than almost
any living author who wrote about music, and as he
is a musician of high standing, and, according to
some, the greatest living authority on the works of
Sebastian Bach, an opinion like the above would
naturally carry with it much weight.
In Memory of Adolf von Hbnselt.*
In Adolf von Henselt, whose birthday falls on the
12th of May, we have, in the autumn of the past
year, lost the last surviving representative of the
older grand school of virtuosity. A contemporary
of Liszt and Chopin, he was, like them, at once an
incomparable master of his instrument, and a genial
tone-creator for it. United with them, he carried to
the tomb the Hummel Field epoch, an epoch in
which virtuosity was its own aim and end, in order
to replace it with the virtuosity of the romantic school
—a virtuosity rich in its subjective and idealistic ten-
dencies, and in its supreme control over the material
* Translated from the German of La Mara in the Scientific
Supplement to the Leipziger Zeitung, and published with the
sanction of the author.