"Conservatoire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Vienna on July 6, 1865, of mixed parentage, his father being a Swiss from St. Croix in the Jura (hence the artist name Dalcroze), his mother of German extraction. At the age of eight his parents brought him to Geneva, where in due course he became a student at the Conservatoire of Music. His musical education was continued in Paris under Leo Delibes and in Vienna under Bruckner and Fuchs. For a short period his studies were interrupted by an engagement as musical director of ...
— The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze • Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
... the mind, the man who has little poetry within him will find little in nature or in the world or in Shakespeare. The man who has no music in his soul will hear none at the Conservatoire in Paris. Wordsworth sees with the inward eye, Southey too exclusively with the outward. The true poet projects visions and rhythms out from his brain, and gazes at and hearkens to them. The degree of the truthfulness to nature and the vividness of these projections ...
— Essays AEsthetical • George Calvert
... or four years a pupil at the Conservatoire, and finally went on the stage, and was soon one of the most brilliant stars of the Parisian theatre at its ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... corrected his fingering while helping fill out his conversational vocabulary. It was certainly most agreeable to have Fraeulein take his fingers in her warm, plump, flexible hand with conscientious authority and show him the method of the Dresden Conservatoire. ...
— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry
... most needed, leaves very little room for foreign genius to think and work in. Yet it remained for M. Molard, a French architect, to contrive an original and ingenious plan for straightening the walls of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, which threatened an absolute collapse owing to the extreme weight of the roof. A series of strong iron bars were carried across the building from wall to wall, passing through holes in the walls, and were secured by nuts on the ...
— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 • Various
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