Modern music has had its Timotheus, who could excite or calm, at his
pleasure, the most impetuous emotions.— Henry III. King of France,
having given a concert, on occasion of the marriage of the Duke de
Joyeuse, Claudin le Jeune, a celebrated musician of that period,
executed certain airs, which had such an effect on a young nobleman,
then present, that he drew his sword, and challenged every one near him
to combat; but Claudin, equally prudent as Timotheus, instantly changed
to an air, apparently sub-Phrygian, which appeased the furious youth.