Quote About The English

[greenrook]

Who was it said 'the only thing worse than English art is English music'? I may have got it the wrong way round

[jannatul18]

I have not seen something like this quote yet!

[Mosaic]

Sounds like some blistering uninformed snob whoever it was.
Lark ascending, Vaughan Williams:
20th century an all

Crank yer volume up - bliss.

[janbee]

Nicola Mugabe Sturgeon?

[Buenchico]

"The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting".
- Heinrich Heine

[Canary42]

Well done Chris, I've been fruitlessly searching for ages.

[Ric.ror]

Elgars cello concerto

[greenrook]

Many thanks to you all, sorry for the delay in replying, owing to ongoing medical thing. Buenchico, I take off my hat to you once again, it was indeed Herr Heine, he of the tin ear. I needed the info for an Anglophile (German!) friend.
Thanks again, -G-

[Peter Pedant]

hmm they had obviously never tried English cooking ....