Quotes by
Gioachino Rossini |
1792-1868 , Italian music composer
Italian composer noted for his operas, particularly his comic operas, of which The Barber of Seville (1816), Cinderella (1817), and Semiramide (1823) are among the best known. Of his later, larger-scale dramatic operas, the most widely heard is William Tell (1829). | 4 quotes | 1,711 visits |
Quotations
| • | Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarters of an hour. 5 |
| • | Give me a laundress’ list and I will set to music even that. 3 |
| • | One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time. 3 |
| • | Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day. 3 |