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Title: Meissonier, his life and his art
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 1815-1891 Gréard, Octave, 1828-1904
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Publisher: New York : A. C. Armstrong
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THE IAINTKK. (M. (-haiichards collection.) the inalienable idea, unchangeable henceforth, is put into an eternalform, which can never bear a different interpretation. 2o6 MEISSONIER How thoroughly one can enjoy Beethoven, seated in the shadowof a baignoire, with nothing to disturb ones emotion. Ah ! that ASymphony, which I have adored ever since I first heard it here long,long ago ! I should like it to be played in the church at ipy funeral.How fateful, how impressive, are the strains of that aiidantc; in-exorable, harrowing, like fate itself, taking hold of ones very soul!Then further on, in the brilliant and playful gaiety of the finale,my early days come back to me. To-night, as on other nights, thebright tones called up the delightful scenes of my childhood, of myyouth, in Dauphine, at Grenoble. . . . Through the music, I couldsee the rushing streamlets, the clumps of willows in the brilliantsunshine, and the long-waisted blue dragon flies, with their trans-parent wings, flying hi

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