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Justan Olphart[_2_] Justan Olphart[_2_] is offline
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Default As it should be played...

On 2/21/2016 3:47 PM, wrote:
The influential critic Eduard Hanslick called it "long and
pretentious" and said that it "brought us face to face with the
revolting thought that music can exist which stinks to the ear".
Hanslick also wrote that "the violin was not played but beaten black
and blue", as well as labeling the last movement "odorously Russian".


Harry knows how to pick em, stinkers that is.