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