PROVOCATIVE THOUGHTS: 
The late Patric Standford may have written these short pieces deliberately to provoke our feedback. If so, his success is reflected in the rich range of readers' comments appearing at the foot of most of the pages.
Karl Tausig
Karl Tausig, pianist and composer, was born in Warsaw on 4 November 1841. He became a pupil of Thalberg and Liszt, and had a penchant for devising piano transcriptions of Bach's organ music and also of his contemporaries. He died on 17 July 1871.