Judas Priest - Grinder

In Bologna, he saw a portrait of St. Cecilia Raphael and wrote to his father that when he looked at this picture, where the saint in ecstasy looks at the sky, and the angels cheerfully make music, tears welled in his eyes. There he listened to “Aida”, calling it “red-skinned music”. He liked Rome more, as he had previously visited Mendelssohn. He roamed the Vatican, the Capitol and the Forum for many hours. Strauss was so carried away by the Forum that he even missed lunch time. Hungry, he sat down on a fragment of marble and eagerly ate two oranges. He met the artist Lenbach, who turned out to be a pleasant conversationalist. Once again visited the Italian opera. After listening to the Barber of Seville, he decided: "I will never become a fan of Italian music."