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
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