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Lemmens' voice is pure, brilliant and mellow: its compass exceeds two octaves and a half, with singular facility of vocalisation. With much natural feeling and artistic expression, Madame Lemmens possesses a refined and graceful style, and is altogether one of the most accomplished singers of
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and other skilled musicians, whose acute sense caused a phenomenon as yet unexplained—namely, that the musical sounds are reproduced in a higher key, half a tone being the difference. While M. Lemmens and his accomplished wife were singing a duet into the branched mouthpiece something caused them
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commented that though the voice was not as rich and powerful as it had been twenty years earlier, "an artist is always an artist, and in everything she sang last night, Madame
Sherrington displayed the skill of an artist by her finished vocalisation."
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in 1878. They had two sons, who became engineers, and two daughters. One of them, Maggy
Lemmens born in London on 7 September 1874 and died in Brussels on 29 March 1962, married a nephew of the architect
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At the time of her husband's death, in 1881, Lemmens-Sherrington was appointed professor of singing at the
Brussels Conservatory, and in 1891 at the
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prominent from the 1850s to the 1880s. Born in northern
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on Good Friday 1878, "...both duets and solos were successfully tried by Madame
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as the vehicle for an attempt to launch an
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Student and Singer—The Reminiscences of Charles Santley
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412:A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians
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490:Reminiscences of My Life
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