"Constitutional Newspaper" Music Column, published August 5th, 1837.
"On the Art of the Piano and True Attainment"
Author: Arthur Hastings
Paris has long been famed throughout the world as a capital of the arts; the resplendent performances upon its stages and the heated discussions in every street and alley are the city's habitual condition.
Be it the eighteenth century or the nineteenth, the musical stage of Paris has never lacked for figures radiant with brilliance.
François Couperin, in the courts of Louis XIV and Louis XV, with his elegant and finely wrought keyboard pieces, established the very paradigm of the "French style."
Jan Ladislav Dussek, with his gentle and ardent playing, formed the first impression among Parisian audiences of the "cantabile" character of the modern piano.
