"Helsingfors" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... recall how proud I was when he sent me to beautiful music-loving Helsingfors, in Finland—where all seems to be bloodshed and confusion now—to play a recital in his own stead on one occasion, and how proud he was of my success. Yet Auer had his little peculiarities. I have read somewhere that the great fencing-masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
— Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers • Frederick H. Martens
... started by steamer for St. Petersburg, but the crowd was so great that we found our staterooms impossible, and we disembarked at Alba, the first capital in Finland. We were curious to see the new capital, Helsingfors, and stopped over a day or two there. From Helsingfors we went by ...
— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage |
