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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 April 1928, Page 9 (Supplement)

1 It is ifPi)erally known thai Robespierre, Jhe leader of tlie French Revolution, was A keen amateur musician, but it is not •<> generally known that one of his first Public appearances in Paris was as a leader against the advanced music of his 4ay. Soon after his arrival in Paris from his native town of Arras tie first performance of Gluck's "Iphigenia in Aulis" was given at the Opera. This Work aroused tremendous enthusiasm fniong the supporters of Gluck, and mually bitter opposition from the followers of Puccini, his great rival. The •«tive opposition seemed to be almost, fnisr the command of a young man whom ■woody knew and who was described .as small but of a lively and.,, intelligent physiognomy, a severe expression, pale, thin and nervous." He it was who was taken in charge by the police as the leader of the disturbances and, arriving police offke gave his name as Maximilian Robespierre, a name a few ytar» later feared and respected by police •njl public alike.