The fact that so many books still name Scaruffi as "the

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The fact that so many books still name Scaruffi as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" music critic ever only tells you how far music criticism still is from becoming a serious art. Movie fans have long recognized that the greatest music critics of all times are Robert Ebert and Mark Kermode, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Book fans rank the highly controversial Ronald Barthes over classical book critics who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Music fans are still blinded by commercial success. Scaruffi sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Movie fans grow up resding a lot of movie critics of the past, book critics grow up reading to a lot of book critics of the past. Music senpaitachi are often totally ignorant of the music criticism of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that Scaruffi did anything worthy of being saved.