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This little composition, which is, alas, the last mortal sin of my old age.

— Gioachino Rossini

Cette petite composition qui est, hélas, le dernier péché mortel de ma vieillesse.

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Music is a kind of harmonious language.

Simple melody and variety in rhythm.

Wait until the evening before opening night. 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. In my time, all the impresarios in Italy were bald at thirty.

Give me the laundress' bill and I will set to music even that.

Monsieur Wagner has good moments, but awful quarters of an hour!

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