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Voice and violin : sketches, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1898
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1Voice and Violin
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5ANTOINETTE CLAVEL
7I have shown in my "Scenes from the Reign of Louis XVI." how marvellously some musicians escaped from the deadly shafts of the French Revolution. The guillotine that mowed down lawyers, bankers, politicians, men of science, authors, and even harmless poets and women, appears to have respected musicians.
9Though some, like the illustrious Cherubini, suffered both physically and morally during this terrible period, the theatre and the concert-room do not figure much in the bloody annals of the Communists. No doubt, many professional musicians perished in the wholesale massacres at Paris, Nantes, Lyons, and Marseilles, yet all the great composers and lyric artists managed to elude the fearful havoc.
11A curious scene occurred when Phillis, the well-known guitar player, father of the fascinating
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