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| − | Fictionalized version of real composer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn] from the 1853 novel ''Charles Auchester'' by Elizabeth Sara Sheppard. The title character is a beginning musician who gets to work with him. The novel opens in 1833, and concludes with Seraphael's death in 1847, the same year as Mendelssohn's death. | + | [[Image:Auchester_Charles_Charles_Auchester.jpg|right|200px]]Fictionalized version of real composer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn], from the 1853 novel ''Charles Auchester'' by Elizabeth Sara Sheppard. The title character is a beginning musician who gets to work with him. The novel opens in 1833, and concludes with Seraphael's death in 1847, the same year as Mendelssohn's death. |
Although Seraphael is himself a pianist, he wrote a lot music for the trombone. | Although Seraphael is himself a pianist, he wrote a lot music for the trombone. | ||
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One his pieces is titled ''Mer de Glace'' (''Sea of Ice''). He also wrote an oratorio. | One his pieces is titled ''Mer de Glace'' (''Sea of Ice''). He also wrote an oratorio. | ||
| − | "Chevalier" is the French word for knight, and is a title, not his actual name. | + | "Chevalier" is the French word for knight, and is a title, not his actual name. Seraphael's actual first name is never given. Seraphael's name comes from Seraphiel, an angel in the apocryphal Book of Enoch that didn't make it into the Bible. |
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Charles Auchester]] | *[[Charles Auchester]] | ||
*[[Lenhart Davy]] | *[[Lenhart Davy]] | ||
| + | *[[Clara Benette]] | ||
*[[Maria Cerinthia]] | *[[Maria Cerinthia]] | ||
*[[Starwood Burney]] | *[[Starwood Burney]] | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
| − | *https://books.google.com/books?id=4iwxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT182&dq=%22fictional+composer%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjR-tKCqIvZAhWltlkKHeCdBww4ChDoAQgwMAI#v=onepage&q=%22fictional%20composer%22&f=false | + | *[https://books.google.com/books?id=4iwxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT182&dq=%22fictional+composer%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjR-tKCqIvZAhWltlkKHeCdBww4ChDoAQgwMAI#v=onepage&q=%22fictional%20composer%22&f=false novel briefly discussed in ''Mendelssohn and Victorian England'', 1988] |
*[https://archive.org/details/charlesauchester01shep ''Charles Auchester'', vol. 1 (1891 ed.)] | *[https://archive.org/details/charlesauchester01shep ''Charles Auchester'', vol. 1 (1891 ed.)] | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/charlesauchester02shep ''Charles Auchester'', vol. 2 (1891 ed.)] | *[https://archive.org/details/charlesauchester02shep ''Charles Auchester'', vol. 2 (1891 ed.)] | ||
Latest revision as of 06:43, 3 February 2021
Fictionalized version of real composer Felix Mendelssohn, from the 1853 novel Charles Auchester by Elizabeth Sara Sheppard. The title character is a beginning musician who gets to work with him. The novel opens in 1833, and concludes with Seraphael's death in 1847, the same year as Mendelssohn's death.
Although Seraphael is himself a pianist, he wrote a lot music for the trombone.
One his pieces is titled Mer de Glace (Sea of Ice). He also wrote an oratorio.
"Chevalier" is the French word for knight, and is a title, not his actual name. Seraphael's actual first name is never given. Seraphael's name comes from Seraphiel, an angel in the apocryphal Book of Enoch that didn't make it into the Bible.
