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Selected quote
You have taken far too much trouble over your opera. Here in England that is mere waste of time. What the English like is something that they can beat time to, something that hits them straight on the drum of the ear.
—
George Frideric Handel
, to
Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Richard Alexander Streatfeild,
Handel
(2005) p. 195, citing Anton Schmid,
Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck
(1854) p. 29.
