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Musical Memories

CHAPTER II
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Faure, Messager, Perilhou, and Gigot were trained there and they taught this method in turn.

My class-work consisted in making attempts at vocal and instrumental music and orchestration.

My _Reverie_, _La Feuille de Peuplier_ and many other things first appeared there.

They have been entirely forgotten, and rightly, for my work was very uneven.
At the end of his career Halevy was constantly writing opera and opera-comique which added nothing to his fame and which disappeared never to be revived after a respectable number of performances.

He was entirely absorbed in his work and, as a result, he neglected his classes a good deal.


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