John Smyth asks:

>Are not cadenzas complete vanity?

How about first and second sections, or development sections, or the
entire work?  I really don't see that cadenzas would involve greater
vanity than any other part of a composition.

Personally, I would replace "vanity" with "showboating".  Liszt did
some of that when he was a young man, but who doesn't?

Don Satz
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