“ He was undoubtedly for some considerable time the greatest executant of his age; but, using his brilliant touch as a means and not as an end, he consistently devoted himself to the further development of the true classical school, interpreting the works of the great masters with conscientious fidelity, and in his extempore performances, which were of quite exceptional excellence, exhibiting a fertility of invention which never failed to please the most fastidious taste. ”

“ During the course of his long residence in London he laboured incessantly in the cause of art, until the year 1846, when, at Mendelssohn’s earnest solicitation, he removed to Leipzig to carry on a similar work at the Conservatorium, then recently founded. ”

“ For a concert given by the latter he wrote his famous Hommage à Händel, a duet for two pianofortes, which afterwards became a lasting favourite with the public. During a visit to Berlin in 1824 he first became acquainted with Mendelssohn, then a boy of fifteen; and a friendship sprang up between them which was severed only by Mendelssohn’s early death (see Briefe von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy an Ignaz und Charlotte Moscheles, 1888) . In 1826 Moscheles married Charlotte Embden at Hamburg, and settled permanently in London. ”