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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