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Arturo Toscanini Quotes

1867–1957 Italy

Arturo Toscanini (25 March 1867 – 16 January 1957) was an Italian conductor, considered one of the greatest conductors in history, and one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th century and early 20th century.

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Every rehearsal is like a concert, and every concert like a debut.

La Scala is the lover who made me despair the most

They ask me what my secret is. My secret is very simple: it consists in having the music performed, note by note, as the author wrote it.

[After hearing Marian Anderson perform] What I heard today one is privileged to hear only once in a hundred years.

[While witnessing Cantelli conduct for the first time] That's me!

[While conducting the 1926 premiere of Puccini's unfinished Turandot] Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arturo Toscanini (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.