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I'm always defending and promoting Puccini. I think his critics often have no idea what they're talking about, and simply assume that because he wasn't just another Modernist, he was a conservative, bourgeois composer bent on making money and not masterpieces. His popularity is the only and...

Hello Everyone, I stumbled upon Gramophone's featured article on the top ten blunders made by music critics when assessing compositions (for the first time, or whenever). Among my favorites include: Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times (who said it I forgot). Alexander Glazunov's...