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: > >"Mozart was a bad composer who died too late rather than too early." > >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