"Which other composer said of Wagner's music that it had ""lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour""?"
Richard Wagner but here he was imitated and caricatured ... Wagner is not a musician, he is a disease." Even those who, like Debussy, opposed Wagner ("this old poisoner") could not deny his influence. Indeed, Debussy was one of many composers, including Tchaikovsky, who felt the need to break with Wagner precisely because his influence was so unmistakable and overwhelming. "Golliwogg's Cakewalk" from Debussy's "Children's Corner" piano suite contains a deliberately tongue-in-cheek quotation from the opening bars of "Tristan". Others who proved resistant to Wagner's operas included Gioachino Rossini, who said "Wagner has wonderful moments, and dreadful quarters of an hour." In
Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion (0:54) 18. Introduction (0:56) 19. Lip My Reeds, S. 32' (P.D.Q. Bach) (4:31) 20. Door Prize Scene: Fanfare for Fred, S. F4F (P.D.Q. Bach) (2:20) 21. Introduction (0:48) 22. March of the Cute Little Wood Sprites, S. Onesy Twosy (P.D.Q. Bach) (3:51) 23. Introduction (0:50) 24. Last Tango in Bayreuth (Professor Schickele) (2:42) 25. Closing (0:32) Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion was released in 1992 by Telarc Records. The album contains one piece by Professor Peter Schickele writing under his own name and several pieces by him