Italian Composer Quotes

Giuseppe Verdi
Antonio Vivaldi
Gioachino Rossini
Gian Carlo Menotti

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. When infirmities, pains, or any adversities afflict us, let us lift up our eyes to heaven and say, "One day all these pains will have an end, and after them I hope to enjoy God forever."

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti
Knowledge of instrumentation should be acquired through experience. Instrumental composition should be conceived instrumentally, imagining and hearing a particular orchestra for each particular and diverse musical condition of the mind.

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Springtime is upon us.
The birds celebrate her return with festive song,
and murmuring streams are
softly caressed by the breezes.
Thunderstorms, those heralds of Spring, roar,
casting their dark mantle over heaven,
Then they die away to silence,
and the birds take up their charming songs once more.

Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!

Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.

It appears to me that they who in proof of any assertion rely simply on the weight of authority, without adducing any argument in support of it, act very absurdly. I, on the contrary, wish to be allowed freely to question and freely to answer you without any sort of adulation, as well becomes those who are in search of truth.