Wagner's visit to Rossini

Here is an exceptional document. Published in 1906, este unexpected pamphlet by Edmond Michotte recounted the visit that, in his presence and some fifty years earlier, the young composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) made to the illustrious Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), who had returned to PAR to peacefully live a golden muy well-deserved retirement.