Wes Crone on Liszt:

>...  I hear Liszt's music I feel like I'm listening to a man who plays
>piano with incredible skill, a man who knows how to put on one hell of
>a show, and a man with nothing much to offer musically.  This is just
>an opinion so don't take offense.  That's a pretty fair description of
>how I feel about the music of Franz Liszt.

If you can't find anything musically, you should at least look at his
principles of composition.  His religous works cannot be dismissed as
showpieces (As already pointed out by Deryk Barker).

Most of Stravinsky leaves me cold, but I can still see why he is considered
as a great composer.  However I must admit that I cannot fully understand
the reputation of Mozart, Brahms and Sibelius.

Mikael
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