"I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers."

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Source : Benjamin Britten, Paul Francis Kildea (2003). “On Music”, p.103, Oxford University Press, USA

Benjamin Britten

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