Max Reger quote: I am sitting in the smallest room of my house...

I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.

Max Reger

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Quoted in Nicholas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1953). Cassell's Humorous Quotations suggests that an earlier version of this jab appeared in a letter by the Fourth Earl of Sandwich in 1785, but no such anecdote is found in the book said to be the source.

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