Note 128 — MUSICAL OBSERVATIONS.[109]

This reasoning seems to me somewhat void of logic, since the same spirit which would urge M. Schindler's "most fashionable" piano-forte player to exceed the tempi of Beethoven's Sonatas, would prompt him also to play the above-mentioned Studies with such a degree of celerity as must enable him to be prepared for the difficulties, at prestissimo speed, of the great master's Sonatas.—ED.