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Verdi was nudging fourscore when he composed Otello and Falstaff, had passed the mark when he wrote his most diapasonal sacred scores, a Stabat Mater and a Te Deum.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he spoke, there issued forth a sesquipedalian vocabulary, diapasonal sounds like a Hammond organ in dense fog.

From Time Magazine Archive