and Mrs. Salis Schwabe.
Mr. J. Cuthbert Hadden wrote several years ago in the Glasgow
"Herald" of Chopin's visit to Scotland in 1848. The tone-poet was
in the poorest health, but with characteristic tenacity played at
concerts and paid visits to his admirers. Mr. Hadden found the
following notice in the back files of the Glasgow "Courier":
Monsieur Chopin has the honour to announce that his matinee
musicale will take place on Wednesday, the 27th September, in
the Merchant Hall, Glasgow. To commence at half-past two
o'clock. Tickets, limited in number, half-a-guinea each, and
full particulars to be had from Mr. Muir Wood, 42, Buchanan
street.
He continues:
The net profits of this concert are said to have been exactly
L60--a ridiculously low sum when we compare it with the
earnings of later day virtuosi; nay, still more ridiculously
low when we recall the circumstance that for two concerts in
Glasgow sixteen years before this Paganini had L 1,400. Muir
Wood, who has since died, said: "I was then a comparative
stranger in Glasgow, but I was told that so many private
carriages had never been seen at any concert in the town.
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