Reynaldo Hahn
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Reynaldo Hahn de Echenagucia was a French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known for his songs – mélodies – of which he wrote more than 100.
Marcel Proust, Hahn's lover and later lifelong friend
La Carmélite (1902): the ceremony of taking the veil, cut under pressure from religious protesters soon after the premiere
Scene from Ciboulette, 1923
Mozart, 1925: Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps
Lilli Lehmann
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Lilli Lehmann was a German soprano who had an active performance career spanning from 1865 into the 1920s. One of the great sopranos of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, music critics hailed her
Portrait with signature, 1903
Lehmann and Paul Kalisch, c. 1891 (Newberry Library, Chicago)