Miscellany
Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini was terrible at remembering names. When he ran into fellow composers, he’d often hum the first few bars of one of their works to demonstrate that he knew who they were.
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Miscellany
Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini was terrible at remembering names. When he ran into fellow composers, he’d often hum the first few bars of one of their works to demonstrate that he knew who they were.