In his memoir Overtures and Beginners, the English conductor Eugene Goossens described Bernardino Molinari, long-standing music director of Rome’s Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, as “the most ridiculously hot-tempered of all maestri… Stories of his stick-breaking, desk-biting, and watch-smashing exploits have long since passed into the realm of legend.”
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