Note 119 — Chapter IV · THE CONCERT FOR THE BROMPTON HOSPITAL.

Mr. S. C. Hall, writing thirty-five years after the event, and having evidently forgotten its details, gives a very inaccurate account of the circumstances, which we have here described on the highest possible authority. Mr. Goldschmidt had been introduced to Mdlle. Lind, and she very much wished to give him the opportunity of appearing at her concert. But, she had not heard him play; and did not think it wise to render herself responsible for the début of a young artist, until she had made herself acquainted with the style of his performance. She therefore invited him to play to her at Clairville; and it was after having heard him there, that she requested his assistance at the concert.