It's all about the classical music composers and their works from the last 400 years and much more about music. Hier erfahren Sie alles über die klassischen Komponisten und ihre Meisterwerke der letzten vierhundert Jahre und vieles mehr über Klassische Musik.
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22 of the best insults in classical music
If you thought classical music was all about peaceful tunes and harmony, think again. The gloves are off and the claws are out as we explore some of the rudest, most insulting composer put-downs in the history of classical music.
1. Rossini
"What a good thing this isn't music." Rossini on Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique2. Copland
"Listening to the fifth symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes." - Copland3. Beethoven
"Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on the backside." Beethoven on Rossini4. Beethoven
"I like your opera - I think I will set it to music." Beethoven5. Rachmaninov
"He was a six and a half foot scowl." Stravinsky on Rachmaninov6. Messiaen
"All you need to write like him is a large bottle of ink." Stravinsky on Messiaen7. Tchaikovsky
"It is the most insipid and base parody on music." Tchaikovsky on Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov8. Stravinsky
"It's beautiful and boring. Too many pieces finish too long after the end." Stravinsky on Handel's Theodora9. Elgar
"The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station." Sir Thomas Beecham on Elgar10. Wagner
"Wagner has beautiful moments, but awful quarters of an hour." Rossini on Wagner11. Berlioz
"A tub of pork and beer." Berlioz on Handel12. Debussy
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 Mer13. Mussorgsky
"He likes what is coarse, unpolished, and ugly." Tchaikovsky on Mussorgsky14. Chopin
"A composer for one right hand." Wagner on Chopin15. Clara Schumann
"He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child." Clara Schumann on Liszt.16. Bach
"All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine." Bax on Bach17. Brahms
"What a giftless bastard!" Tchaikovsky on Brahms18. Handel
"Handel is only fourth rate. He is not even interesting." Tchaikovsky on Handel19. Saint-Saens
"If he'd been making shell cases during the war it would have been better for music." Saint-Saëns on Ravel20. Britten
"I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music." Britten on Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress21. Strauss
"He'd be better off shovelling snow than scribbling on manuscript paper." Richard Strauss on Schoenberg22. Prokofiev
"Bach on the wrong notes."
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