About Gioachino Rossini: Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.
