Their conservatoires form the singers, and their schools the painters and architects of Europe and America.
"Worldly Ways and Byways"
Eliot Gregory
He has done more for the advancement of our music than the entire official teaching of the conservatoires A day will come when, by the force of things and in spite of all resistance, such a man will take the place that belongs to him at the head of the organisation of music in France.
"Musicians of To-Day"
Romain Rolland Commentator: Claude Landi
They differ widely from the helpless epigonae of our old conductors: they are not musicians brought up in the orchestra or at the theatre, but respectable pupils of the new- fangled conservatoires; composers of Psalms and Oratorios, and devout listeners at rehearsals for the subscription concerts.
"On Conducting (Ueber das Dirigiren): A Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music"
Richard Wagner (translated by Edward Dannreuther)