CHAPTER XII.
THOUGHTS ON PIANO-PLAYING.
My daughters play the music of all the principal composers, and also the best salon music.

Limited views of any kind are injurious to art.

It is as great a mistake to play only Beethoven's music as to play none of it, or to play either classical or salon music solely.

If a teacher confines himself to the study of the first, a good technique, a tolerably sound style of playing, intelligence, and knowledge are generally sufficient to produce an interpretation in most respects satisfactory.

The music usually compensates for a style which may be, according to circumstances, either dry, cold, too monotonous or too strongly shaded, and even for an indifferent or careless touch.