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Bruce Alan Wilson wrote:
>I have never been able to listen to or in any way endure GG since I read
>what he said about Mozart, to wit:
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>"Mozart was a bad composer who died too late rather than too early."
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>I can't imagine how any musician could say such a thing.
Although he did not disdain to perform and record his works.
"It is a fact that Mozart's sonatas are compositions entirely unworthy
of the author of *the Magic Flute*, or of any composer with pretensions
to anything beyond mediocrity. They are written in a style of flashy
harpsichord virtuosity such as Liszt never descended to, even in
those of his works at which so many persons are accustomed to sneer."
--Edward MacDowell, as quoted in Joseph Solman's *Mozartiana*
"Most of Mozart's music is dull."
--Maria Callas, attributed by Ariana Sassinopoulos in *Maria
Callas*, as quoted *Mozartiana*, above.
Walter Meyer '48
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