Liszt: Sonata in B Minor. (pianist Emanuel Ax)

National Review | February 7, 1994| | Copyright

MUCH nonsense has been written about Giuseppe Verdi, right down to the critic Edward Dent, who could leek down his nose in the 1920s and write about "barrel-organ tunes that excited our ancestors to laughter or disgust." He was referring to Rigoletto and La Traviata, and presumably to Nabucco, which contributed mightily to driving foreign rulers off Italian soil. Verdi himself, who could inveigh strongly against sopranos, tenors, and managers, remained calm over this kind of criticism, collecting his royalties and saying, "I'll tempo decidera." Dent must have had one of ...

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