'Composer beef' - the most searing insults in classical music

6 March 2018, 13:03 | Updated: 9 March 2018, 15:55

Promoted by Scotch Beef

They wrote the most beautiful music imaginable, but between them, it could sometimes get more than a little nasty.

Some of the many great composers had beef. So with Scotch Beef, we're taking a look at some of the less-than-harmonious duets between composers. 

Here are a few of the most brutal (and at times rather witty) insults between the great classical maestros...

Beethoven on Rossini

Stravinsky on Rachmaninov

Copland on Vaughan Williams

Tchaikovsky on Mussorgsky

Stravinsky on Messiaen

Stravinsky on Handel

Sir Thomas Beecham on Elgar

Rossini on Wagner

Beethoven

Rossini on Berlioz

Tchaikovsky on Mussorgsky

Wagner on Chopin

Tchaikovsky on Brahms