"Amateurship" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... years the junior of her sister, and born at Paris, July 18, 1821. The child had for sponsors at baptism the celebrated Ferdinand Paer, the composer, and the Princess Pauline Prascovie Galitzin, a distinguished Russian lady, noted for her musical amateurship, and the full name given was Michelle Ferdinandie Pauline. The little girl was only three years old when her sister Maria made her debut in London, and even then she lisped the airs she heard sung by her sister and her father with something ...
— Great Singers, Second Series - Malibran To Titiens • George T. Ferris |
