Achille Fleury
Contents
Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Achille Fleury's band was lodged at the Eureka Hotel at the time it was burnt to the ground.
Post 1854 Experiences
Obituary
- Death of Hons. Achille Fleury.
- The mail from India brings news of the death of Mons. Achille Floury, composer and violinist, the leader of the orchestra of Madame Alice May's Opera Company, and one of the oldest, as he was one of the best conductors of an orchestra in the colonies, Mons. Fleury will he best remembered in Melbourne in connection with a grand series of promenade concerts given at the Salle de Valentin, Spring-street (after the style of Jullien, with whom he was a fellow-worker at the Parisian Conservatoire), some twenty years since. He succeeded in making a very considerable fortune from his profession, but lost it afterwards in mining speculations. Mons. Fleury was one of the earliest to leave the colony during the first New Zealand rush, and after trying the goldfields he settled at Dunedin, where he played during the visit of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, at his H.R.H.'s request, a solo of his own composition, the merits of which were rewarded by the Prince with a present of a handsome diamond ring. He also ordered it to be printed, and took a thousand copies. M. Fleury was of an advanced age, and had for years been a martyr to rheumatic gout. The change of climate from the acute colds of New Zealand to the equally acute heat of India doubtless accelerated his death. He will be universally regretted in the profession.[1]
In the News
See also
Further Reading
References
- ↑ The Herald, 20 Dec 1875.
External links
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