Doublereed Archive - Posting 000036.txt from 2003/11

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:22:33 -0500

"Composers like Wagner, and those of today like Strauss and Mahler, really
require a little motor in the horn to play the parts; therefore I retired."

-Friedrich Gumbert (1841-1906)
First Horn in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and professor, Leipzig
Conservatory from 1864 to 1898