in a Recital for Two Pianofortes
ELEVEN at night.—Late as it is, I must tell you that I ... then went to Felix (Mendels-sohn), with whom I tried over, from the proof sheets, my Homage a Handel, but in a curious manner. He has but one piano-his own Erard-but he remembered to have heard some one practising occasionally in the next room, occupied by an elderly lady. Before his door, leading to her room, stood a wooden press, too
. big to be moved without great trouble. Felix went to the lady, and asked her leave to play in her room whilst I played on his; the lady gladly consented; we opened the doors but the press remained immovable. The instruments happened to be in tune together, and the whole thing went capitally.'— (Life of Moscheles.)