Steve Schwartz writes:

>The Greatest Composer should be free of your likes and dislikes.

Yet, it's "likes and dislikes" that determines the exposure that
composers receive.  Popularity can be measured, but objective "greatness"
is an impossibility.  Actually, who cares about it?  Each of us is going
to listen to the composers whose music most leaves its print on us.

Don Satz
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