Gioachino Rossini — Italian Composer born on February 29, 1792, died on November 13, 1868

Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces... (wikipedia)

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.