"If it is legitimate to say, with a Gallic term, that a singer or an actor, called to interpret a new production on stage, become in a certain way creators of it, there is no one better than the concertmasters and orchestra directors of a musical score, this illustrious title belongs. [...] In this respect, the master concertmaster and conductor Cav. Angelo Mariani deserves, first in Italy, the title of creator."