Do you imagine that our intelligent age cannot discern your hidden satire?
You say that our times are in need of your three trifles, _and_ the necessary knowledge and experience.

_Voila tout!_ As for Prince Louis Ferdinand, Dussek, Clementi, Himmel, Hummel, C.M.v.
Weber, Beethoven, &c.,--who has not heard all about them?
After them, comes the period of "piano fury," and the compositions appropriate for it.

Now the three trifles required are _distorted_ taste, _hypocritical_ feeling, and a _depraved_ ear, combined with the necessary superficiality and some power of production.

_Voila tout!_ After that, musicians bethink themselves once more of the genuine three trifles, and return to reason, and we are allowed to take delight in Chopin, Mendelssohn, Fr.

Schubert, Robert Schumann, and a few others of the same sort, and again in Beethoven.
These were succeeded by mere dry imitators; they were not, however, of much significance.
Finally, the very latest progress introduces a still more extravagant piano fury.