The dreams of my youthful imagination were but prose in comparison with the Bacchic hymn evoked by his supernatural fingers.

No one who did not hear him at the height of his powers can have any idea of his performance.
* * * * * Seghers was a member of the Societe des Concerts at the Conservatoire.
This reached only a restricted public and there was no other symphony concert worthy of the name in Paris at the time.

And if the public was limited, the repertoire was even more so.

Haydn's, Mozart's and Beethoven's symphonies were played almost exclusively, and Mendelssohn's were introduced with the greatest difficulty.

Only fragments of vast compositions like the oratorios were given.