Pablo Massa replies to Stirling Newberry:

>>Critics such as deFetis, Strong, Hanslick might not get much recognition
>>now, ...
>
>Fetis was an idiot, who ows to Berlioz's "Memories" --and to some hated
>counterpoint excercises-- the major part of his "inmortality", if not all
>of it. Strong is unknown to me.

George Templeton Strong - not to be confused with the composer of the
same name - was a 19th-century New York diarist and musical critic.  Very
conservative.  Many examples from Slonimsky's Lexicon of Musical Invective
come from him.  I don't find him all that engaging, either in his diaries
or in his criticism, but to each his own.  He remains a major source of
contemporary viewpoint for historians of the period.

>However, I don't understand why do you say that Hanslick "might not get
>much not recognition now"

I think all Stirling meant was that very few people, even those interested
in classical music, read any of these guys nowadays.  Other than excerpts
translated into English, I've never read Hanslick to the extent that I've
read the critical works of Berlioz, Schumann, Debussy, and Shaw.

I had never even heard of deFetis before Stirling's post.  I'd like to know
more.

Steve Schwartz