"Berceuse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to McGuire. It was still early and the supper hour was seven, so Peter unpacked his small trunk which had arrived in his absence and then, carefully shutting door and windows, sat at the piano and played quietly at first, a "Reverie" of Tschaikowsky, a "Berceuse" of Cesar Cui, the "Valse Triste" of Jean Sibelius and then forgetting himself—launched forth into Chopin's C Minor Etude. His fingers were stiff for lack of practice and the piano was far from perfect, but in twenty minutes ...
— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs |
