Scan 75
Voice and violin: sketches, anecdotes, and reminiscences by T.L. Phipson, 1898
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3MADEMOISELLE FRÉRY
5It is interesting to record, from personal notes and reminiscences, facts which have not yet found their way into musical dictionaries, and to make known a few traits, if not the complete life-history, of some of the finest violinists the world has ever known.
7Alas! it is now more than forty years ago that I made the acquaintance, for a brief moment, of a most beautiful and accomplished lady violin-player in the person of Mademoiselle Fréry, a favourite pupil of the great De Bériot.
9A short time previously I had known slightly Teresa Milanollo, had attended one or two of her concerts, and once, during the brief interval of a dance, had received from her own lips many interesting observations relating to her musical career. After studying in Italy and at Paris, she became a pupil of Léonard, in Brussels, towards the middle of the present century. She was clever and interesting rather than beautiful, of somewhat diminutive stature and rather cold manner, bearing, even at the
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