Steve Schwartz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>This seems to me a muddled way of going about things. This isn't a war,
>and yet war is the dominant metaphor. In 20th-century music (and later)
>music alone do we find the eager creation of mutual enemies.
The pro-Wagner and pro-Brahms factions in 19th century Vienna?
>At any rate, I don't know of people fighting with the same passion over
>the worth of early Romanticism.
But they did 150 years ago.
Deryk Barker
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