According to http://www.classicstoday.com/features/0404-editorial.asp
1. Mozart really does all sound the same.
2. Beethoven's Grosse Fuge is just plain ugly.
3. Wagner's operas are much better with cuts.
4. Nobody cares about the first 3 movements of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.
5. Schoenberg's music never sounds more attractive, no matter how many times you listen to it.
6. Schumann's orchestration definitely needs improvement.
7. Bruckner couldn't write a symphonic allegro to save his life.
8. Liszt is trash.
9. The so-called "happy" ending of Shostakovich's 5th is perfectly sincere.
10. It's a good thing that "only" about 200 Bach cantatas survive.
Wow! Does that go against the grain or what? Who knew?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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