新音楽時報
On 28 December 1841, an article in Leipzig's "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik" attacked Rossini's "Stabat Mater", which was to be premiered at the Salle Ventadour in Paris on 7 January 1842. Although the article was written by Wagner, it was signed "H. Valentino". Wagner's biographer Ernest Newman writes: "It was inevitable that many readers of the article should regard it as coming from [Henri Valentino], and it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that Wagner maliciously intended to create that impression".