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Show Meyerbeer was so nervous and "fidg ety" about his works that when they were in course of preparation or rehearsal rehear-sal or performance he never gave himself him-self or any one .else concerned a moment's mo-ment's peace of mind. He was constantly constant-ly making changes or alterations in the score and would sometimes write a passage pas-sage in three or four different colored inks in order to try the different effects, and then could not make up his mind which was the best He worried over his opera, ' 'L'Africaine, ' ' so long, delaying, delay-ing, retouching and polishing, even while it was in rehearsal, that the self imposed labor made him ill, and he died before the first public performance |