Kris Maglione dixit (2010-06-17, 15:39): > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:28:54PM +0200, Antoni Grzymala wrote: > >Kris Maglione dixit (2010-06-17, 05:57): > > > >>On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:56:21PM +0300, Dmitry Maluka wrote: > >>>On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:27:39AM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > >>>>English really isn't much more than bastardized Germanic with quite a > >>>>lot of words stolen from Norman French, anyway. A bit like C++ to C, > >>>>really. > >>> > >>>German is overcomplicated too, try Swedish. > >> > >>Are there any good Swedish composers? > > > >Probably not, but neither is Wagner (let's revive the Brahms vs. Wagner > >flamewar!). > > All I can say to that is that anyone trying to take away my copy of > Wesendonck-Lieder or Ein deutsches Requiem would very likely suffer > loss of limb.
I can swap any number of Wesendock Lieder for a single copy of Ein Deutsches Requiem (preferably with Walter) or Alto Rhapsody for that matter – but that discussion should go off the list, should it progress any further. -- [a]
