“Delsarte tells me that Mozart stole outrageously from Galuppi, in the same way, I suppose, that Molière stole from anybody anywhere, if he found something work taking. I said that what was Mozart had not been stolen from Galuppi, or from anyone else for that matter.”
15 March 1855 (p. 270)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
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