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'Oui, monsieur, oui, oui, je suis musicien; je joue tous les instruments possibles! Oui, monsieur.... Sauvez-moi, monsieur! 'Well, thank your lucky star! replied the landowner. 'Lads, let him go: here's a twenty-copeck piece for vodka. 'Thank you, your honour, thank you. Take him, your honour. They sat Lejeune in the sledge.

Allied to the most exquisite poetic sensibilities one is reminded here of Balzac's "Ce beau genie est moins un musicien qu'une dine qui se rend sensible" there was another nature, fiery, implacable. He loved Poland, he hated her oppressors. There is no doubt he idealized his country and her wrongs until the theme grew out of all proportion. Politically the Poles and Celts rub shoulders.

"'The devil! said the captain, turning to me, 'you are forgetting your bass, I think. "I took the bass. I would willingly have crept into it. Two horses stood ready saddled at the house door. "'Well, Monsieur le Musicien, said Rina, 'do you not help me to get on my horse? You are not very gallant. "I held out my arm to assist her, and as I did so she put a small piece of paper into my hand.

In these purely pictorial qualities he is supreme, and claims place with the few quintessential artists of the world; to him may be applied by analogy the phrase that Liszt applied to Schubert, "Le musicien le plus poète que jamais." As an instrument of expression, then, colour is used by Giorgione more naturally and effectively than it is by any of the Venetian painters.

He suggested a static picture, a thing of always, but I know it is not so, for even the next summer he had disappeared along with the bal and now he may have been shot in the Battle of the Marne or he may have murdered his gigolette and been transported to one of the French penal colonies.... An apache, en musicien! ... black cloth around his throat, hair parted in the middle, velours trousers; a vrai apache I tell you, a cool, cunning creature, shredded with cocaine and absinthe, monotonous in his virtuosity, playing the accordion.

The sincere expression of things seen took root from this moment as the principal rule of art in the brain of this young Frenchman who was loyal, ardent, and hostile to all subtleties. He painted some fine works, like the Buveur d'absinthe and the Vieux musicien.

"He said," Auber replied, with a merry twinkle in his eye, 'Auber est un grand musicien qui fait de la petite musique." "That was pure envy," I said. "I should like to know what you said about Rossini." "Well, I said," and he hesitated before continuing, "I said that Rossini est un tres grand musicien et fait de la belle musique, mais une execrable cuisine."

That his life should have been simultaneous with the perfect literary unfolding of the old Volkslied in the superb lyrics of Goethe, Heine, and their school, is quite remarkable. Poe-try and song clasped hands on the same lofty summits of genius. Liszt has given to our composer the title of le musicien le plus poétique, which very well expresses his place in art.

It was necessary to prove that he was as young, as fresh, and as fertile as ever, and with this object in view, in June, 1846, he began the two books which were to form the series entitled "L'Histoire des Parents Pauvres." It was first called "Le Vieux Musicien," next "Le Bonhomme Pons," and then "Le Parasite," a title on which Balzac said he had decided definitely.

For nine consecutive years I have been singing F sharp at this opera house, and now here comes a musicien from the backwoods and demands all of a sudden that I sing F!” This was the commentary of Fräulein Varini, the prima donna whose outstanding bosom had long been a source of human merriment to pit, stall, and gallery. “Ah, he is a greasy grind determined to arrive,” said the first violinist.