set As Teacher, by Ary Fay “The Etude” Musle Magazine, May, 1902 suosessor, Paserewski, Liszt sat ereat, and never bent his proud head over the “upid bye," he called thers, even deprecting his pupsls” doing oo. He vee very piowuresque, ‘with his lofty and ideal forehead thrown back, and his magnificent iron-gray hair falling in ‘hick masies upon his neak. The most divine expressian came over his fate then he besan ‘2 play the opening messure: of the accompaniment, and | shall never forget the ‘sonsentration and intensity he put into them if | Five to be a hundred! The nobebty and absolute “selflessness” of Liszt's playing had to be heard to be understood. There was Something sbaut het tone that made you weep, i waz sa apart from arth and 20 ‘ethereal! ‘Touch i certsinly = wonderful and mabtle thing, and reveais the suhole personality of the musician in a mast mysterious way. Hr. B. J. Lang. some years ago. in his article on “Touch,” which was se much cS:cutsed in the New Tork Musical Courler. and so entirely mmizunderctood, war right when he said that each person's touch upon the piana haz Samething peculiar which distinguishes ic fram that of any ather, and makes ths own. ‘is ke the leaves of 2 tree, no two of which are exactly alike When List played he seemed ta be devoured by an inner flame, and he projected hinself ‘nto musie tise @ comet inte pace. He imply threw himesif enélong inti, and gave al ‘there was in him. The only pisnist | have ever heard wha resembles List in this intercity ‘of style & Fanny Bloomfield-Zeisier, who haz the same appearance of expending her {alent unreservedly and of pouring ft out upon the publio with the wimost pradigaiy She, toa, gives all therein her, and warks Eerifcaly when she plays. | am sometimes questioned ar te List's “method.” He had none that | am aware of, although he doubtless served his time when he was # pupil of Czemy, who must have been one of the beet teachers who ever Lived. Prabably f baz to the faithful practiow of Coceny's etude: (from which he, in vain, prayed his father to be dolivered) im hiz youth that List owed these fine-spun fingers of hit, for biz Finger-teohwic was” something marvelous, and made everybody sls anem coarse and heavy in compartzon. | fist woke th to the realisation of 2 Hight ‘rat when U heard List play his "Valse Impromptu,” and leamed the walts, to try to imitate it. One learned af him by ear. You heard him do something and you wanted to do i, too. Of course, you couldn't, but it developed you = (geod deal to ty) Under the inspiration of Lists playing everybody worked “tooth and nail” ta achieve the jmpectble. A smile of anprobatian from him war all-we cared for. This & haw it & that he ‘urmed out such a grand school of piano-playing. He was nat afraid, and his pupils are tke him. They are not afraid, either, and it & they who have revealed Lest's beautiful ‘compositions and brillant soncertztyie to the werd. It the direct inheritance of hi: {teaching and example, and even his least ersinent pupils have caught something of L's largeners of horizon.