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" Dr. Hedderwick
says it was a drawing-room entertainment, more piano than
forte, though not without occasional episodes of both strength
and grandeur. It was perfectly clear to him that Chopin was
marked for an early grave.
So far as can be ascertained, there are now living only two
members of that Glasgow audience of 1848. One of the two is
Julius Seligmann, the veteran president of the Glasgow Society
of Musicians, who, in response to some inquiries on the
subject, writes as follows:
"Several weeks before the concert Chopin lived with different
friends or pupils on their invitations, in the surrounding
counties. I think his pupil Miss Jane Stirling had something
to do with all the general arrangements. Muir Wood managed the
special arrangements of the concert, and I distinctly remember
him telling me that he never had so much difficulty in
arranging a concert as on this occasion. Chopin constantly
changed his mind. Wood had to visit him several times at the
house of Admiral Napier, at Milliken Park, near Johnstone.


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