Guillaume Tell

but a symphony under another name? Had I heard

Moses in Egypt

? Would I listen to this, and this, and this, and say if anything more sublimely sacred and grand had ever been composed by mortal man?”⁠—And without waiting for a word of assent or dissent on my part, looking me hard in the face all the time, he began thundering on the piano, and singing to it with loud and lofty enthusiasm⁠—only interrupting himself, at intervals, to announce to me fiercely the titles of the different pieces of music: “