Deryk Barker wrote:

>Robert Peters ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>
>>My criticism of Mahler's Lied is that there is not even one good poem in
>>the work...
>
>So - good job that musically it's a masterpiece, eh?

Mozart did the trick first with the Magic Flute:  nonsensical poetry, magic
music.  And there are all the bad poems Schubert and Beethoven chose...

Robert Peters
robertpeters@t-online