10 MAY 1997, Page 28

Wagner and who else?

Sir: I'm glad Robin Holloway finds Brahms 'great enough to put him up there with the B's, S's and W's' (Arts, 26 April), but apart from Wagner, who are the W's? Have the musicologists been holding something back? Or was it a rhetorical flourish?

Graham Tayar

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