23 Of The Shadiest Insults From Classical Composers
"What a good thing this isn't music."
1. Tchaikovsky on Brahms.

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2. Prokofiev on Stravinsky.

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3. Berlioz on Handel.

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4. Rossini on Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.

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5. Beethoven on Rossini.

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6. Clara Schumann on Liszt.

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7. Vaughan Williams on Mahler.

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8. Bizet on Wagner.

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9. Schoenberg on Strauss.

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10. Fauré on Ravel's String Quartet in F Major.

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11. Rossini on Wagner's Lohengrin.

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12. Saint-Saëns on Debussy.

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13. Virgil Thomson on Sibelius' Symphony No. 2.

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14. Mendelssohn on Berlioz.

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15. César Cui on Strauss' Sinfonia Domestica.

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16. Tchaikovsky on Borodin.

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17. Brahms on Liszt.

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18. Schumann on Wagner.

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19. Lalo on Brahms.

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20. César Cui on Wagner.

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21. Britten on Brahms.

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22. Ravel on Saint-Saëns compositions during the war.

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23. Rimsky-Korsakov on Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, and Mussorgsky.

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