Lindsay Sloper

After studying the piano in London under Ignaz Moscheles, he went, around 1841, to Aloys Schmitt in Frankfurt, and later to Georg Jacob Vollweiler in Heidelberg and Xavier Boisselot in Paris.

He appeared occasionally as a pianist at the concerts of the Musical Union (1846) and the Royal Philharmonic Society (1849), of which he subsequently became a member.

The last movement was taken with extraordinary rapidity, but the energy, precision and finish of the performer's style were preserved throughout with undiminished power.

[1] A reviewer of a concert in 1868 wrote: "Mr. Sloper of late years has appeared much too rarely in public; and yet few belonging to the profession of which he is a member can bring forward more honourable credentials.

A composer and pianist of distinguished ability, Mr. Sloper is one of the small number who have never deviated from the right path, but, looking at art from a serious point of view, have treated it accordingly.