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Originally Posted by in rainbows 109
To those kids bashing Brahms, you'll appreciate him when you get older and realize that he's a lot better than Mahler and Holst.... Well, Holst at least, I think a lot of people are better than Holst. A lot of people on this site write better music than Holst.... Not that he didn't provide great music for the orchestral rep, not so much for band though, but isn't that the story of band anyway?
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As for Holst, I personally do not find a lot of his works particularly captivating, but the planets alone is enough to qualify him as a great composer in my opinion.