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Article: Brahms: Works for Chorus and Orchestra. (Jard van Nes, Herbert Bloomstedt, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Chorus )
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- February 11, 1991
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CONTEMPORARY of Robert Schumann's remarked that he was "the greatest of music critics among composers, and the greatest composer among music critics." Today we can ponder over the ambiguities of the statement, but in Schumann's time it was meant as the ultimate accolade to one whose influence on the course of nineteenth-century music was far more significant than what he produced as a composer.
It is well to remember that not all of musical Europe considered him the successor to Beethoven. Vincent d'Indy, with roots in a more sophisticated Paris, grunted at the "clumsiness" of Schumann's orchestration, which of course is nonsense. Schumann, whose compositions ...
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