Identifier: frenchlanguageco00berg (find matches)
Title: French language and conversation
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Berger, François. (from old catalog)
Subjects: French language
Publisher: Paris, New York (etc.) Brentano's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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47Mozart is a great German composer of music. He was bornin 1756 and he died in 1791. His principal works are : DonJuan, the Wedding of Figaro, the Enchanted Flute, and anadmirable Requiem which was his Song of the Swan. I am going to give you the description of his person. Heseems to be eighteen years old. He wears the costume ofthe time : a velvet coat with metal buttons and large cuffs ;knee-breeches, silk stockings and silver-buckled shoes. Heholds a bow in his right hand, and in his left his violinwhich he is trying to tune. What other great composer was born in the yearof Mozarts death, that is to say in 1794 ?—Meyerbeer.—Did Meyerbeer compose masterpieces ?—Yes ; agreat number.—Can you mention a few of them ?—The African, the Star of the North, the Huguenots,the Prophet, and Robert the Devil.—Where wasMeyerbeer born?—In Berlin.—Where did he die?—In Paris.—When?—Not long ago.—In what year?—In 1864. Mary, explain this engraving. In the year of Mozarts de

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