citato in Mario Morini, I cento anni di «Cavalleria rusticana»
Eduard Hanslick Frasi e Citazioni
Eduard Hanslick: Frasi in inglese
The Beautiful in Music (1854)
Quoted by Long Beach Opera Co. http://www.longbeachopera.org/index.php4?id=200403
From Norman Lebrecht, The Book of Musical Anecdotes (1985, Sphere Books)
Eduard Hanslick, quoted by Wolfgang Sandberger (1996) in the liner notes to the Juilliard String Quartet's Intimate Letters. Sony Classical SK 66840.