"You will hear him one day, my child! When I am in Heaven, I will send him to you!" Then people who do not know that the Angel has visited those persons say that they have genius. And they can not touch an instrument, or open their mouths to sing, without producing sounds that put all other human sounds to shame. Persons who are visited by the Angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind. Then their ears suddenly perceive celestial harmonies, a divine voice, which they remember all their lives. He often comes when they least expect him, when they are sad and disheartened.
No one ever sees the Angel but he is heard by those who are meant to hear him. The Angel of Music played a part in all Daddy Daae's tales and he maintained that every great musician, every great artist received a visit from the Angel at least once in his life. She wheedled her mother, was kind to her doll, took great care of her frock and her little red shoes and her fiddle, but most of all loved, when she went to sleep, to hear the Angel of Music." Her hair was golden as the sun's rays and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes. "Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. In Chapter V "The Enchanted Violin", we first learn that Christine have beend told the tales of the The Angel of Music from her father: The references are all to the original Gaston Leroux's novel. The origin of "Angel of Music" as pertaining to the Phantom are back in Christine's childhood.