A good one from the Monz page...

>Liszt is very pleased while sight-reading Brahms's E-flat-minor
Scherzo, then plays his own recently-completed Sonata in B minor, a
work whose main importance lies in Liszt's formal innovation: an
attempt to fuse all 4 movements of the traditional sonata design into
a 1-movement work. When Liszt looks over to see what his young
visitor thinks, he finds Brahms asleep: a premonition of the major
split that will occur in 19th-century European music. Brahms claims
>that he was simply listening with his eyes closed...

Uh huh... And Virgil Thomson used to listen to music for his reviews
after opulent dinners with wine with his eyes closed as well...Much
better concentration that way...
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