blond as the cornfields, sweet as the angels, young as the dawn, melancholy as the sunset. The Life of Bellini - Page 5 by John Rosselli - 1996 - 184 pages Limited preview - About this book
...1863:ML390. E7. Escudier was a noted French publisher who described Bellini as "blond as the fields of corn, sweet as the angels, young as the dawn, melancholy as the sunset," and compared him to Mozart and Pergolesi, both of whom were eighteenthcentury musicians who had died...