 | Stendhal, Giuseppe Carpani, Théophile Frédéric Winckler, William Gardiner, Friedrich Schlichtegroll, Giuseppe Baretti - 1818 - 520 pages
...Wagenseil, and gave up his place to him, by the side of the piano. " Sir," said Mozart, to the composer, " I am going to play one of your concertos ; you must turn over the leaves for me." Hitherto Wolfgang had only played on the harpsichord, and the extraordinary skill which he displayed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 pages
...and gave up his place to him by the side of the piano forte. ' Sir,' said Mozart to the composer, ' I am going to play one of your concertos; you must turn over the leaves for me.' Many years afterwards, the Emperor Joseph the Second, who pretended to be a connoisseur in all the... | |
 | 1818 - 428 pages
...gave his place to him by the side of the piano. — « Sir," said Mozart to the composer, « we are going to play one of your concertos ; you must turn over the leaves for me." •IGH SENSE OF HONOUR IN A FZON, OR EAST INDIA FOOT SOLDIER. Ail Englishman once on a hunting party... | |
 | 1822 - 628 pages
...sent for Wagenseil, who took his Majesty's place by the side of the performer. " Sir," said Mozart, " I am going to play one of your concertos ; you must turn over the leaves for me." The Emperor Joseph the Second said to him once, speaking of his opera the Enlcvement du Serail, " My... | |
 | William Thomas Parke - 1830 - 370 pages
...was in the room. " He," said he, " will understand me." Wagenseil coming up to him, Mozart said, " I am going to play one of your concertos ; you must turn over the leaves for me." His father had only taught him the harpsichord : he taught himself to play on the violin. It one day... | |
 | William Mullinger Higgins - 1838 - 276 pages
...sent for, and, taking his place by the side of the piano, the child turned to him and said, " Sir, I am going to play one of your concertos ; you must turn over the leaves for me." The remarkable readiness with which Mozart made himself master of any musical instrument is proved... | |
 | 1839 - 532 pages
...Wagenseil, and gave up his place to him by the side of the piano. "Sir," said Mozart to the composer, "I am going to play one of your concertos ; you must turn over the leaves for me." On Mozart's return from Vienna to Salzburg, he brought •with him a small violin which had been given... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pages
...Wagenseil, and gave up his place to him by the side of the piano. ' Sir,' said Mozart, to the composer, ' I am going to play one of your concertos; you must turn over the leaves for me.' The emperor said, in jest, to the little Wolfgang; ' It is not very difficult to play with all one's... | |
 | Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846 - 198 pages
...Wagenseil, and gave up his place to him by the side of the piano. ' Sir,' said Mozart to the composer, ' I am going to play one of your concertos ; you must turn over the leaves for me." The emperor said, in jest, to the little Wolfgang ; ' It is not very difficult to play with all one's... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1846 - 382 pages
...Wagenseil, and gave up his place to him by the side of the piano. ' Sir,' said Mozart to the composer, ' I am going to play one of your concertos ; you must turn over the leaves for me.' The emperor said, in jest, to the little Wolfgang; ' It is not very difficult to play with all one's... | |
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Is not M. Wagenseil here? We must send for him; he understands the thing.' The emperor sent for Wagenseil, and gave up his place to him by the side of the piano. ' Sir,' said Mozart to the composer, ' I am going to play one of your concertos ; you must... 
