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Posted by L Mendel on January 25, 2008, 7:26 pm
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Hello - I'm a bit mixed up on just whose Sonata was played by Liszt. It sounds like Liszt's but it could be Brahms's. Was it Liszt's Sonata that was the finest piano sonata ever written, or not?
The info is:
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/July02/Brahms_profile.htm
Liszt was the greatest pianist of all time. He took Brahms' "Scherzo in E flat minor ,Op. 4" and played it at sight. On the other hand when Brahms heard Liszt play his own Sonata in B minor Brahms was allegedly not impressed. One wonders why. It is the finest piano sonata ever written. But Brahms was welcomed into Liszt society and met fellow composers including Raff whose talent has yet to be recognised. But Johannes was not comfortable. The Liszt society was not exclusively German.
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Also, there's a grammatical error (has/had) in present and past tense involved. CORRECTION: ...fellow composers including Raff whose talent had yet to be recognised. ... (etc)
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