Steve Schwartz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>Jim Tobin writes:
>
>>... What other composers have famously destroyed their own works?
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>Brahms, for one. Sometimes he merely reworked the pieces extensively,
>but I dimly recall that he destroyed a few things and all the subsequent
>hand-wringing that has gone on since, from at least Clara Schumann to
>the latest musicologist who's finally given up looking.
He claimed to have destroyed 20 string quartets before No.1....
Deryk Barker
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