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Voice and violin: sketches, anecdotes, and reminiscences by T.L. Phipson, 1898
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1early age of twenty-three, conspicuous evidence of severe training. She had also been stricken down by grief after the premature death of her younger and highly gifted sister Maria, with whom she had achieved so many successes in the concert-room. Léonard composed an Elégie in remembrance of this sad event.
3In Mademoiselle Fréry we had not only a fine violinist, but one of the most beautiful girls ever seen in Brussels during the middle years of this century.
5At eighteen years of age, when about to compete for the first prize in the violin class of the Conservatoire de Musique, she was a very attractive young person indeed: rather above medium height, with a profusion of lustrous dark hair, large expressive eyes, regular and handsome features, and of that modest, retiring disposition which frequently accompanies decided talent.
7Few of the youth of Brussels knew her even by sight, for she devoted herself assiduously to her studies; but those who did happen to know her, it is needless to say, were all enraptured.
9She resided not very far from the Conservatoire, of which she attended the classes regularly. How long she had been in working her way up to De Bériot's class (the highest class of the Conservatoire), I cannot say; but my music master, Henri Standish, was the répétiteur of that class, and, of
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