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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