"Speculation may lead one to the conclusion that listening to his wife performing the Romantic piano pieces of the day during his period of recovery may have had an influence on the sound and unusual right hand technique he adopted for the Bardenklange (Bardic Sounds) Op.13."
Not only is this only a very weak speculation, but it also does not really say anything of substance. "influence on the sound" has no essential content. If it refers to musical texture or harmonic palette it should say so. If it refers to anything else it is specious.
Consultation with newsgroups and listservs of classical guitarists turns up no one who knows of any "unusual right hand technique" believed to have been used by Mertz or that can be inferred from his compositions.
Richard Yates
Ryates 12:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
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