Ignaz Moscheles - Symphony in C-major, Op.81 (1828) 

Yeah, he owned about half as large an armada as Czerny. Beethoven was in charge of the air force. Clementi had a rowboat.

I know I commented on this before, but I'd watch a show where the premise is "Classical composers also all happened to be members of a Sci-fi Navy and did battle for fun"

This is an outstanding work by a second rate 19th Century composer. Like Godot, I find myself waiting for the First Movement to take off or do something besides a recurring, delimited solo trumpet fanfare that sounds like that WW1 battleship sitting atop a cloud bank and going absolutely nowhere. The andante starts with promise and fizzles. The Third movement has some interesting moments after you get by the initial buildup but is dragged down to Davy Jones' Locker by the Trio. The Finale is the first-rate part of the work particularly with its Scherzoesque drops and musical parodies.

​@@willwyche2064 Moscheles had a few masterpieces here and there. Sonata Melancolique, The Piano Trio, and a lovely cello sonata are worth giving a listen.

Schumann also thought little of Alkan and viewed Thalberg to be on par with Chopin and Liszt. Critics suck, whether they are an embittered narcissist who couldn't carry a tune in a suitcase, or the composer of Kreisleriana.

Schumann was an acute musical critic but, in this case, he may have been negatively biased because of was so very jealous of Ignaz's awesome sideburns.

La opinión de Schumann es tan válida o tan errónea como la de cualquier otro. Tampoco entendió la Sonata en si menor de Liszt.

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Adherence to form? Lord I wish more composers would apply it. We might have decent music to listen to in our time.

@@andrewpetersen5272 Many composers nowadays adhere very strictly to form. That's not the reason they're difficult to listen to (most of the time). It's the much more local things (harmony and metre) that normally make modern music harder to listen to. Try some Jennifer Higdon or John Adams. Maybe some Rautavaara.

@@klop4228 John Adams is nice, but ifind the minimalist stuff a bit plain. Higdon is good. Guess my preference tends to the old Moderns like Barber and Antheil and I'ves. I understand your point, I should say I prefer the development of musical composition more when it based in some foundation of melodic line.