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LETTER VI.
ON THE SELECTION OF COMPOSITIONS MOST SUITABLE
FOR EACH PIANIST.
You wish to know, Miss, what compositions you are chiefly to play, so that you may learn all that are good, as far as that is possible, and that too in a natural and progressive order; and it does credit to your taste, that you are desirous not only of studying the favorite pieces of the present day, but likewise the most striking works of the earlier and more ancient masters.
Your worthy teacher has already recommended to you the admirable Studies of Bertini, Cramer, &c. as also the excellent Grand Scale-Exercises of Clementi; and I cannot but rejoice that you have also had the goodness and patience to occupy yourself with some of my own contributions towards furthering volubility of execution,—such as my School for Virtuosi;—of Graces and embellishments;—of Legato and Staccato, &c.
The studies just named have, for the greater part, a merely practical aim; but, in the present day, there frequently appears, under the
