⁶ Schumann went further, in his review of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique: “Italian melody – the sort that we know perfectly even before it starts”. Cited from Bent, Ian, ed., Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2: Hermeneutic Approaches (Cambridge, 1994), 187.Google Scholar Laconically, Lacombe tells us that Aubryet's outburst was published on 7 October 1863, and we are left to assume that it was inspired by Bizet's opera, which by then had been performed three times.

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