Tchaikovsky

Genius. I wonder if you could say that Cage plagiarised any of the following with 4:33:

Beethoven's 10th
Haydn 105
Mozart 41
Shostakovich 16
Tchaik 7
Prokofiev 8
Brahms 5 (not counting the Schoenberg orchestration of his Piano quartet that is essentially Brahms 5).

John Cage was an idiot anyway. I've got no time for him.

I don't know how you can say Tchaik was the greatest composer ever. But he did write one of my favourite symphonies. His 4th that is. And he definitely had a talent for orchestration, like Stravinsky, where you just know a piece had to have been written by him. The 1812 overture is just stupid though.

 

Are you taking the piss?

 

out of whom?

 

Huge fan. His first is frickin' amazing.