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

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  • (Monsieur Wagner a de beaux moments, mais de mauvais quart d'heures!) Letter to Emile Naumann, April 1867, quoted in E Naumann Italienische Tondichter (1883) vol. 4, p. 5. Translation from The Riverside Dictionary of Biography (2005) p. 689.