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Deryk barker asked concerning my general dislike of Liszt's music:
>I just wonder which Liszt you're basing this assessment on considering his
>enormous output.
He sure did write a lot of music. Liszt's music is a topic I enjoy when
I'm in a bad mood or when I use him in a joke. I'm feeling fine right now,
and I have no jokes to tell. But, Deryk essentially asked for a list, and
I never refuse a list:
Piano concertos
Annees de pelerinage (but some of it is nice).
Hungarian Rhapsodies
Etudes
Mephisto Waltzes
Battle of the Huns
Rhapsodie espagnole
Dante Symphony
Piano sonata
I don't find every single part of each of these works to be disliked, but
my overall feelings about them are in that range. But, I'm a young guy
with about 50 years left in me. There's always the chance of a Satz-Liszt
alliance smiting all the Crones in the land.
There's some history to this Liszt business. My dad was a highly
histrionic type who had a penchant for exhibitionism - would YOU want to
live with this man? Anyways, he salivated over romantic era composers, and
boy did I hear it, and hear it, and hear it. One year I think that he had
the notion he was related to Liszt; even my mom who was the "grin and bear
it" type felt compelled to inform him that he was driving us nuts and his
last name was *Satz*. The guy snapped out of it in time to move on to his
next obsession.
Don Satz
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