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MUSICAL AND LITERARY MISCELLANY.
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A GREAT ARTIST.
In companies, where the finest players executed
the finest compositions, when Beethofen sat down
to the piano-l'orte lo conjure up something upon
the spur of the moment, he was sure to throw all
who had played before him into tlie shade. His
fertile fancy, and the impetuosity of his tempera-
ment, rendered him a prodigy, and his performance
was of a nature to stagger the faith of those present,
even though they saw and heard. In his poetic
fury at the piano, he elicited combinations of ihe
most complicated difficulty, and executed passages
whi'ch he would have shrunk from attempting in
cold blood. Nor was it only surprise that excited
his hearers — they were carried away by the
strangeness and beauty of his fancies. The style of
some of his pianoforte productions may give an idea
of some of his extempore playing ; though notliiug
written by him can equal the ideas fresh from his
own brain, executed by himself. Difficulties stimu-
lated him, and he loved those who dared them;
he took an affection to Ferdinand Ries, his pupil,
for venturing an extraordinarily difficultcadeuce in
public, and coming out of it successfully. With
all this he had but small hands, and a manner of
execution which would be deemed inferior to that
of some pianoforte teachers. But what cannot love
accomplish? It is this devotion to her, and en-
thusiasm in her service, indicative of a simple
nature, and inconsistent with personal vanity, ava-
rice, or envy, the usual vices of artists, which the
Muse never fails to reward with her choicest gifts.