stamaty in many ways was the ideal candidate for kalkbrenner. he was talented, ambitious and in addition to that he was poor and bored at his job in the préfecture. and above all he was prepared to suffer kalkbrenner who had a reputation as a martinet. marmontel shrewdly points out that, as stamaty was no artist on the scale of chopin and thus lacked the strong personality of the great genius, he was ideally suited for kalkbrenner's strict regime.