I believe he got up his reputation entirely by that clutch, for he often played wrong notes himself without minding it.

But just because he worked himself into a sort of frenzy when others went wrong, everybody praised him, and said he had such an ear and was so sensitive that he must be a great musician.

He worried me nearly to death over Bach's 'Well-tempered Klavier'-- all to no purpose, for I can't play a note of it now, and shouldn't care to if I could.

I consider Bach a dreadful old bore, though I know it is heresy to say so.

Even Beethoven is occasionally prosy, only no one will be courageous enough to admit it.