Deryk Barker wrote of Wes Crone's negative feelings of Liszt's music:

>In other words you don't like it.  Fair enough, but that's not the
>same as its being "pretentious pooh-pooh"(whatever that might mean).

Wes will answer for himself, but I feel similar concerning Liszt.  You
don't care for "pretentious pooh-pooh"? Here's another way of putting it.
When I listen to Liszt's music, I generally get the feeling that he's
promoting himself - Liszt for Liszt's sake.  It's music that goes off in
overheated directions just to overheat.  It's the worst excess of what
Romantic-era music has to offer.  That's my subjective opinion.  I do
feel differently concerning his late solo piano works.

Don Satz
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