Excerpt from Recent Music and Musicians: As Described in the Diaries and Correspondence of Ignatz Moscheles MY best thanks are due to Felix Moscheles, Esq., not only for the advice and generous assistance he has given me in the revision of the following pages, but for much specific Information gathered from his father's manuscripts and valuable collection of autographs, both musical and literary. Among these are such miscellaneous treasures as sketch-books of Beethoven, manuscript music of Sebas tian Bach, Mozart, Weber, and Mendelssohn, and a cor respondence, as yet unpublished, between Moscheles and Mendelssohn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.