“But when we were alone together, and I again pressed him to play something for me, he told me that his style suited the public, and never failed to produce upon them its wanted effect, but that if he played before me he would have to adopt another style and one for which he was not at all in training. We should, he said, no doubt meet again in Rome or Naples, when he would no longer refuse to comply with my request.”
Louis Spohr
