Showing posts with label wagner. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Funny quotes by Rossini talking about Wagner

Both Rossini and Wagner are a romantic period opera composer. May be they are competitor....
Here are some of Rossini quotes talking about Wagner.


"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour."


"One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time."


"Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour."


"Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours."

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Funny quotes about Wagner

“For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.”
By Robert Schumann, German composer



“Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.”
By Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer



"One can't judge Wagner's opera 'Lohengrin' after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time."
By Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer



"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."
By Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet



"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."
By Woody Allen, American comedian



“I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.”
By Mark Twain, American author



“Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.”
By Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer



"Wagner, thank the fates, is no hypocrite. He says out what he means, and he usually means something nasty."
By James Huneker, American music writer and critic