Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
Quoted in The Musical Times, February 1909; cited from Percy A. Scholes The Mirror of Music, 1844-1944 (London: Novello, 1947) vol. 1, p. 267.
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
— George Eliot, book Middlemarch
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