I have seen them rebel at the difficulties in Beethoven, and it was even worse when Seghers undertook to give Schumann who was considered the _ne plus ultra_ of modernism.

Oftentimes there were real riots.

But we heard there for the first time the overture of _Manfred_, Mendelssohn's _Symphony in A minor_, and the overture to _Tannhauser_.
The modern French school found the doors in the Rue Bergere closed to them, but they were welcomed with open arms at the Chaussee d'Antin.
Among them were Reber, Gounod, and Gouvy, and even beginners like Georges Bizet and myself.

I made my first venture there with my _Symphony in E flat_ which I wrote when I was seventeen.

In order to get the committee to adopt it, Seghers offered it as a symphony by an unknown author, which had been sent to him from Germany.