excerpt from 'Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character' pp. 63 (84 words)
excerpt from 'Music and manners; personal reminiscences and sketches of character' pp. 63 (84 words)
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Once, I having been assured by hundreds of more or less trustworthy persons, he [Albert Niemann] possessed a magnificent voice; an organ of inimitable beauty and power... Ere I first heard him sing, he had sacrificed that priceless gift of Nature to Wagner and conviviality. I only know him, in his public capacity, as the finest tragic and romantic actor living of those connected with the lyric drama, as a man of extraordinary, splendid physique and noble bearing, and as an exceptionally accomplished musician. |
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