21 of the best insults in classical music: Listening to the fifth symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes. - Copland I like your opera - I think I will set it to music. Beethoven What a good thing this isnt music. Rossini on Berliozs Symphonie Fantastique He was a six and a half foot scowl. Stravinsky on Rachmaninov All you need to write like him is a large bottle of ink. Stravinsky on Messiaen It is the most insipid and base parody on music. Tchaikovsky on Mussorgskys Boris Godunov Its beautiful and boring. Too many pieces finish too long after the end. Stravinsky on Handels Theodora The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station. Sir Thomas Beecham on Edward Elgar Wagner has beautiful moments, but awful quarters of an hour. Rossini on Richard Wagner A tub of pork and beer. Berlioz on Handel The audience expected the ocean. Something big, something colossal, but there were served instead with some agitated water in a saucer. Louis Schneider on La Mer He likes what is coarse, unpolished, and ugly. Tchaikovsky on Modest Mussorgsky A composer for one right hand. Wagner on Frédéric Chopin He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child. Clara Schumann on Liszt. All Bachs last movements are like the running of a sewing machine. Bax on Johann Sebastian Bach What a giftless bastard! Tchaikovsky on Brahms Handel is only fourth rate. He is not even interesting. Tchaikovsky on Handel If hed been making shell cases during the war it would have been better for music. Saint-Saëns on Ravel I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music. Britten on Stravinskys The Rakes Progress Hed be better off shovelling snow than scribbling on manuscript paper. Richard Strauss on Schoenberg Bach on the wrong notes. Prokofiev on Igor Stravinsky
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