"What music will he play when he is twenty ?" she was asked.

"He will play his own," was her reply.
* * * * * The greatest benefit I got from my experience with Stamaty was my acquaintance with Maleden, whom he gave me as my teacher in composition.
Maleden was born in Limoges, as his accent always showed.

He was thin and long-haired, a kind and timid soul, but an incomparable teacher.

He had gone to Germany in his youth to study with a certain Gottfried Weber, the inventor of a system which Maleden brought back with him and perfected.

He made it a wonderful tool with which to get to the depths of music--a light for the darkest corners.