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36 MY MUSICAL EXPERIENCES mentioning odd scraps of news in society, ' Yes, the papers say he died last night.' Will it be thought an incredible thing, a heartless trait in me, that I just turned round, and played the piece to the very last note ? No one there had the slightest idea what that death meant to me, and I was not going to let them know it then. But as soon as I could I left the room and went home, with the feeling that, as regarded pianoforte-playing, I was stranded.
[ 37 ] II. TAUSIG. DuKiNG the time when I was still a pupil of Stern- dale Bennett, I came accidentally into contact with Tausig. I brought away from the one occasion on which I heard him an impression which no lapse of time has been able to efface. It was in the month of February, and my mother and I were staying in Berlin, where we had been detained by my having had scarlet fever in a very severe form. We were both anxious to return home, and the day of our departure had been nearly settled on, when some friends of the lady in whose house we were staying mentioned a concert to be given in the following week by an artist whose name, though unknown to us, was, it appeared, of Continental celebrity. The manner in which this lady spoke of Tausig excited in me a great desire to hear him. He was to play nothing but Chopin that evening, and the tickets, though expen - sive for Germany, were only to be had through a
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