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Originally posted by Maestro Akhil Gardner@Nov 19 2005, 06:44 AM
[b]Well, Do you really think Grieg has the slightest chance of ever being Crowned the gretest composer ??? Let's have a look at his Genres of Composition - 1 Piano Concerto, 1 Piano Sonata, 1 Symphony - The work was so bad that the composer requested it never be performed !! Hundreds of Miniatures. I agree that he was possibly the most lyrically gifted - after Schubert, Chopin and the Russians........... but in Classical Music - the composer who writes the best melody dosent exactly write the best music !! (Brilliant Examples - Beethoven & Brahms).
Oh and yes .... the selection is totally biasedÂ* 
Come on Beethoven Fans - Mozart seems to be catching up - get voting !!
Akhil G.
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Grieg didn't think his symphony was bad. He just thought it would look bad compared to his friend Johan Svendsen's two symphonies. I'm too busy rigth now to write more, but i can say i disagree with MOST of the stuff you said.
