The following is specially arranged for THE ETUDE from [the Standard History of Music by James Francis Cooke, Theodore Presser, Philadelphia, 1910]...

Par 1 VLADIMIR DE PACHMANN (pahk'-mahn), born in 1848 at Odessa, has made a specialty of Chopin's works and is unexcelled in the performance of them. He was a pupil of his father, and of Dachs at the Vienna Conservatory. Notwithstanding many eccentricities, he is a very great artist.