Klarinet Archive - Posting 000151.txt from 2004/04

From: "Don Yungkurth" <chalumeau@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Fwd: MUSICIANS' QUOTES
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:18:10 -0400

Bill Hausmann's listing of musicians' quotes reminded me of two of my
favorites, as quoted by Nicolas Slonimsky in his "Lexicon of Musical
Invective":

"I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a giftless bastard!
It annoys me that this self-inflated mediocrity is hailed as a genius. Why,
in comparison with him, Raff is a giant, not to speak of Rubenstein, who is
after all a live and important human being, while Brahms is chaotic and
absolutely empty dried-up stuff"

(Tchaikovsky's Diary, entry under October 9, 1886)

After an unfavorable review of his "Sinfonietta", Max Reger sent the
following letter to the critic:

"I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review before
me. In a moment it will be behind me."

Don Yungkurth

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