Quatre Morceaux de Salon, star des Melodies de Francois Schubert,
pour &- Piano; composes par STEPHENHELLER. We doubt whether there is any path through the works of Mr. STEPHEN HELLER to CHOPIN, albeit there be some approach in the fin. gering, in the structure of the passages, and the employment of the. hands. A slight attempt with such pieces as these will prove how cer- tainly the fearful difficulties of the Polish composer would yield to well- directed efforts: we only wish that the initiatory trouble of this me- chanism could have been repaid by better music. It is preeminently music with which CHOPIN rewards his votaries—the new effects of the first inventor of modern times: but the fingers brought up in HummEr.. and KALEBRENNER cannot now unlearn their craft. This is the grand impediment to CHOPIN ; whose compositions need only be duly inter- preted to take their place in the first class of genius.
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