"Septette" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... business. It is true that his honesty did not prevent his making contracts disadvantageous to Christophe: but he kept his contracts. He kept them only too well. One day Christophe was amazed to see a septette of his arranged as a quartette, and a suite of piano pieces clumsily transcribed as a duet, without his having been consulted. He rushed to Heeht's office and thrust the offending music ...
— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland
... Beethoven's Third Symphony, "Eroica," given by the Philharmonic Society, at the Apollo rooms, New York City. (This work was played as a Septet by the Musical Fund Society in ...
— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee
... one of Arthur's knights, is charged with treachery, is followed by Merlin's chant of victory with chorus accompaniment. As its strains die away a distant horn announces Viviane, who makes her appearance singing a breezy hunting song with her maidens, leading up to a spirited septet. Then follows the baffled attempt of Viviane to crown Merlin, the scene closing with a repetition of the chant of victory ...
— The Standard Operas (12th edition) • George P. Upton
... all apprenticeship involves. I consent to its publication because I remember that British colonel who called on Beethoven when the elderly composer was working at his posthumous quartets, and offered him a commission for a work in the style of his jejune septet. Beethoven drove the Colonel out of the house with objurgation. I think that was uncivil. There is a time for the septet, and a time for the posthumous quartets. It is true that if a man called on ...
— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw |
