[12] Gave popular concerts of dance-music and introduced the galop.
[13] It was really written by Léon de Wailly: Alfred de Vigny merely revised it.
[14] In 1848.
[15] Liszt afterwards mounted it successfully at Weimar.
[16] Since writing this, I conducted the first four parts of it in London and never did I have a more brilliant reception, nor was I better received by the press. (In a letter to Ferrand he says: “I am quite pleased with my success. Romeo and Juliet made people cry. I cannot go into the details of my three concerts, but I may say that the new score made some notable conversions. An Englishman bought my baton from Schlesinger’s servant for 150 francs. The press has treated me splendidly.”)
[17] Mademoiselle Recio.
[18] I had not then heard the Midsummer Night’s Dream.
[19] Composed in 1834.
[20] Ferrand was in Sardinia.
[21] My intimate friend, now director of the Marseilles Conservatoire.