Franz Liszt plays it while talking to an employee. Claudin hears his music being played on piano. Pleyel tells him good night and walk back to his etchings. Pleyel, now tired of Claudin, tells him that an employee probably threw it in the wastebasket where it belongs. Pleyel orders his secretary to give Claudin his concerto.

He interrupts Pleyel & his secretary etching images. Claudin sneaks in, intent on getting his script back. The employee claims that he doesn't know anything about it.

An employee of Pleyel who quits for the day comes out and Claudin asks him about his manuscript. Erique is sure that Pleyel and Desjardins will publish it and give him a substantial advance.Ĭlaudin goes to Pleyel & Desjardins to let them have a look at it while he's in the waiting room. Claudin tells him he has written a concerto, and asks him once again to consider teaching Christine free for a while, and get paid for it later. Claudin goes to Signor Ferretti, Christine's music teacher, and begs him to continue to instruct Christine despite not getting payed, until Claudin gets a new secure position. Claudin explains that he has gotten pain in the left fingers recently which affect his playing, and is dismissed from the orchestra because of it.Ĭlaudin has almost no money now. One day, the owner of the Paris Opera House calls for a meeting with Claudin as he thinks he is the one who has been causing the discord in the violin ensemble. He has secretly been paying for Christine DuBois' music lessons. Like that Erique wasn't deformed from birth, that he got his face destroyed by acidĮrique Claudin has been a violinist for the Paris Opera House for 20 years now.

A lot of other things were also different from the original Erik character. In the original script of the movie, Erique was Christine's father, but that idea was dropped and Erique's interest with Christine remained unexplained.

Erique Claudin is the primary antagonist/anti-hero of Phantom of the Opera (1943 film), loosely based on Erik in Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera.

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