{"id":23555,"date":"2014-11-27T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=23555"},"modified":"2017-08-29T14:50:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T18:50:03","slug":"coffee-break-the-worst-composer-insults-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/11\/27\/coffee-break-the-worst-composer-insults-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"LISZTS | 15 Of The Best Insults By Composers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To be a composer you need a thick skin. Not only was it a regular occurrence for composers to be booed during concerts, but they also criticized each other. According to the Business Insider<\/a>, composers rank 7th, with a score of 88\/100 out of the world’s most competitive jobs. After reading these, you\u00a0can see why.<\/p>\n

1:<\/h3>\n

\"Mozart\"<\/p>\n

They say Clementi lived in Mozart\u2019s shadow\u2014and insults.<\/p>\n

\u00a02:<\/h3>\n

\"96e\/12\/koch\/3757\/ac06\"<\/p>\n

That’s just plain mean!<\/p>\n

\u00a03:\u00a0\"Wagner-update\"<\/h3>\n

Wagner was not a fan.<\/p>\n

4:<\/h3>\n

\"Rossini\"<\/p>\n

Zing!<\/p>\n

5:<\/h3>\n

\"tchaikovsky\"<\/p>\n

Tchaikovsky didn’t mince words.<\/p>\n

6:<\/h3>\n

\"beethoven\"<\/p>\n

We’re are not sure who he was yelling at exactly,\u00a0but Beethoven\u00a0seems very upset.<\/p>\n

7:<\/h3>\n

\"Romantik<\/p>\n

Written in a letter to Alma Mahler. See number 8 for the rebuttal.<\/p>\n

8:<\/h3>\n

\"Schoenberg\"<\/p>\n

Alma Mahler told Schoenberg about what Strauss said. This was his response.<\/p>\n

\u00a09:<\/h3>\n

\"chopin\"Chopin to Berlioz\u2014too many notes.<\/p>\n

10:<\/h3>\n

\"berlioz\"<\/p>\n

Sounds like a decent meal to me!<\/p>\n

11:<\/h3>\n

\"Igor<\/p>\n

Poor Rachmaninov.<\/p>\n

12:<\/h3>\n

\"bax\"<\/p>\n

Bach vs. Bax<\/p>\n

\u00a013:<\/h3>\n

\"saint-update\"He seems nice.<\/p>\n

14:<\/h3>\n

\"Benjamin\"<\/p>\n

Benjamin Britten\u00a0had a sharp tongue.<\/p>\n

15:<\/h3>\n

\"prokofiev\"<\/p>\n

#Ouch<\/p>\n

Check another item off your to-do LISZT\u00a0HERE.\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Be warned, fair reader: your favourite composer may be on either the giving or the receiving end of these jabs! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":46954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117,18,5797],"tags":[6103],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Composer_Insults_cover-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-67V","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23555"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46956,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23555\/revisions\/46956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23555"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}