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After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music?
- Richard Wagner

- Submitted by: LucidLupin

I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient;
whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.
- Mark Twain

- Submitted by: LucidLupin

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
- Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

- Submitted by: LucidLupin

Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

- Submitted by: LucidLupin

One can't judge Wagner's opera 'Lohengrin' after a first hearing
and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time.
- Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

- Submitted by: LucidLupin

Parsifal is the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been running for three hours, you check your watch and it says 6:20.
- David Randolph

- Submitted by: LucidLupin

The Prelude to [Wagner's] 'Tristan und Isolde' reminds one of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel
. - Eduard Hanslick

- Submitted by: LucidLupin

There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal
- The National Paris 1850

- Submitted by: LucidLupin

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Edgar Wilson Nye (1850 - 1896) quoted in Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924

 
 

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