Upon his return that summer from Münster, he brought with him the two virtuosos in question.

It is said that this was his first opportunity of hearing any distinguished virtuoso upon the piano-forte,a mistake, we think, for he must have heard Mozart in Vienna, as before remarked.

In The Rambler, No. 82, Johnson makes a virtuoso write:'I often lamented that I was not one of that happy generation who demolished the convents and monasteries, and broke windows by law.'

So, too, the "Old German rhymed verse" after the manner of Hans Sachs, enjoyed a short popularity; and one saw virtuosos playing with the canzone or the makame.