The Lure of Music, Depicting the Human Side of Great Composers, With Stories of Their Inspired Creations
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He often repented the early years spent in an uncongenial trade; he dreamed of what he might have been if he had had an earlier start. But there was his child, bom with genius, knowing in his boyhood what the father had given years and the very blood of his heart to learn! "Alexandre Cesar Leopold" he was named at his christening, but he quickly became "Georges" for short. He was born in Paris, October 25, 1838. At ten he entered the Conservatoire, took prize after prize, and made every one lov...e him. He was gay, impetuous, hot- hearted. He had a shock of yellow hair, firm features, a strong body, a ringing laugh. The sweetness of his mouth balanced the mischievous sparkle of his eyes. He was near-sighted, even then, and a tremendous worker. Bizet won the Prix de Rome in 1857 with his cantata, "Clovis et Clothilde." In Rome he spent his happiest years. In Rome he dreamed the dreams that never 107 THE LURE OF MUSIC came true. He wrote his mother that he intended to make one hundred thousand francs as soon as he re- turned to Paris.
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