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When I play a violin concerto it seems fair enough to give the public three or four nice little things, but always pieces which are truly musical, not such as are only 'ear-ticklers. Kreisler he has a great talent for transcription has made charming arrangements. So has Tivadar Nachéz, of older things, and Arthur Hartmann.
Mozart, like Gluck, had no disciples only the second-rate men have disciples; but their example, and the tendency which they represented, had a curious result. Before their time all opera-writers had been avowed ear-ticklers.
He tells him to his face that he himself, the Holy Father, must acknowledge that the Papal see was more wicked and shameful than any Sodom, Gomorrah, or Babylon; that God's wrath had fallen upon it without ceasing; that Rome, which had once been the gate of heaven, was now an open jaw of hell. Most earnestly he warns Leo against his flatterers, the 'ear-ticklers' who would make him a God.
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