The Mendelssohn alt must have gotten under Wagner’s skin. Comparing anyone to Mozart though is simply unfair to them, at least I think. Out of curiosity, did he say anything about Wagner’s other cronies like Liszt, or the other Romantic “school” of Brahms and Schumann?
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N said he disliked Schumann, but says in an 1860s letter that he travelled to Bonn to lay flowers on Schumann's grave; yet he would later term him "a spinster" & "a strictly national phenomenon" representing a "lessening" of music. His opinions on composers could deeply change.
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