Steve Schwartz says that he
>... tended to like only bits and pieces of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven,
>Schubert, Schumann, Verdi, and Brahms. I simply didn't care for the
>idiom. I found it bland and predictable at first.
Well, there are times when bland and predictable are just what is
needed. When I come home from a hard day's work there is nothing I
like more than to relax while listening to the Grosse Fugue, or maybe
the Hammerklavier.
Bernard Chasan