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Re: "The Worst Piece Of Classical Music Ever Written"

« Reply #45 on: February 17, 2014, 12:32:54 am »

Bartok's Kossuth (early tone poem) is pretty bad. When the perfidious Austrian approaches to lay our hero low the orchestra intones the Emperor's Hymn. Even a musically unsophisicated teenager as I was when I heard it thought this was bathos itself.


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