Liszt
So far up his own arse he was almost inside out.
'I'm ace on the piano, me. ' he'd say (but in Hungarian). Then Rachmaninov came along and wazzed all over him. 'You're shite' he would retort ingo Russian.

Wankers the pair of them. Playing 900 notes a minute does not make you a good musician no more than smashing 30 bricks makes you Bruce Lee.
Chopin must have been spinning in his (sadly all too premature) grave lamenting at how they could defile a piano in such a vulgar way.

And don't get me started on Debussey.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sat 1 Jan 2011, 20:38, 4 replies)

You wrote this on your iPhone, didn't you?

(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Sat 1 Jan 2011, 22:59, closed)

iPhone my arse
Android phone.

How did you know? Is it full of predictive text mistakes?

Edit: Seen it.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 0:49, closed)

Ha hah!
Excellent. About time somen socked it to those dead elephant tusk tickling twats
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Sun 2 Jan 2011, 13:48, closed)

Yeah!
And none of 'em could hold a candle to Stephen Foster!
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I'm a bad man, and I'm going to hell.
(universalpsykopath loves what you've done with your hair., Tue 4 Jan 2011, 13:56, closed)

Well, Chopin might be spinning in his grave
except Liszt was a personal friend of his.

Liszt also contributed to music in other ways than composing: by reputation he was an excellent performer (and not just on the fast stuff) and he taught extensively in later life without charging for his lessons, since he lamented the increasing commercialization of the art of music. Shame that the same can't be said of many modern musicians. Liszt also donated much of his later concert income to charity.

Rachmaninov on the other hand deserted his homeland in order to make a quick buck performing in the US. Fucking sell-out!
(Mr T, Tue 4 Jan 2011, 16:40, closed)