Rachmaninoff and his prelude in C sharp minor. He grew to dislike its popularity.

When you said Ravel I was sure you were going to talk about Bolero.

Glad that your voice is back, Dave!  
This excellent video reminds me that Rachmaninoff was annoyed because the popularity of his Prelude in C Sharp Minor made it an expected encore at every concert.

Holst was an introverted guy who wasn't comfortable with the celebrity "The Planets" brought him. When asked for his autograph he would hand the person a typed slip of paper stating that he did not sign autographs.

"... ran away screaming from the Eroica". I love that line!

When told that the middle movements of his Op. 130 quartet were hits which the audience demanded to be played again, LVB (who sat out the premier at the local pub) responded, “"And why didn't they encore the Fugue? That alone should have been repeated! Cattle! Asses!"
- - and yes, TheraFlu! And homemade chicken soup, you know the kind, which is getting increasingly difficult to find.

Thank God for Dave Hurwitz and Theraflu! Even illness can't keep away your sense of humor. Thanks as always.

I wouldn’t call it a “work”, but I heard Bizet looked down his nose at the Toreador song.

Sousa:  Washington Post March.

He sold it to a publisher for $35 and the publisher proceeded to make numerous arrangements for various instrument combinations.  It was a huge hit and made the publisher a bundle, but Sousa got all of $35.   This led to the creation of ASCAP and copyright laws.

I would be grateful if you did a review of the Havergal Brian symphonies.

Thanks!

The Planets is a score recommended to composers as an example of orchestration so I bought it , lots of instruments doing various effects what's not to like

It's almost as if that publisher got Sibelius Valse Triste fya song & a dance 😂

Interesting.  I might have thought Bolero.

Switching from music to art, if Leonardo came back to life, he might be annoyed or amused at how famous the Mona Lisa has become. Its global celebrity all started in 1911 when it was stolen from the Louvre, and the newspapers made a contest out of where it was and who stole it. There is a painting by Samuel Morse of a large room in the Louvre called "Gallery of the Louvre" showing the people and paintings in it. It takes a while to notice where the Mona Lisa is. Not a single person in the painting by Morse is looking at it. When it was stolen in 1911, the people working at the Louvre did not notice it was missing until almost a day later when an artist copying paintings in the museum asked an employee about where it was. The painting by Morse called "Gallery of the Louvre" can be seen on Google Image. The other paintings at the Louvre by Leonardo get nowhere near as much attention. I always enjoy your lectures.

Bruch and his first violin concerto, because it vastly overshadowed his other marvelus works for violin and orchestra

Holst could of always  done The Galaxies as a follow up to The Planets to cash in. Be damn with artistic integrity when there is a dollar to be made.

Similar to the Sibelius story, Bruch hated his first violin concerto. It was so popular from the get go, and he kept trying to promote his other violin concertos, symphonies, choral works (those were also popular in his lifetime,) etc, to limited success. But he'd sold his violin concerto, with all the rights, early in his career, and he never could cash in.

I would add Bernstein’s frustration on West Side Story eclipsing everything else he wrote.

Schoenberg's Gurrelieder. He turned his back on a standing ovation.

I've sometimes wondered whether Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings  could've been his equivalent to Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor.
As a choral singer, I feel similarly about Franz Biebl's Ave Maria: a fad piece that everybody was overdoing in the 1980s and -90s.
Not bad music, but after a while, you just have to escape from it.