Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossiniwas an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth29 February 1792
CityPesaro, Italy
CountryItaly
time judging opera
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
bad quarters wagner
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
awful composer quarter wagner
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
funny music humor
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
silence answers indifference
Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
music inspiration
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.
language kind music-is
Music is a kind of harmonious language.
men miracle prodigies
If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
inspiration hair waiting
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.
genius musician amadeus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.
four week
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.
heart generations common
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
music giving lists
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
music piano would-be
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.