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Chevalier Seraphael
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.
