"Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation."

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A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano Concerto. He would have wished that he would be remembered as an opera composer, but it was to be his orchestral extravaganzas, mainly the trilogy of Roman pictures that has made his name famous.

— Ottorino Respighi