Complex sentence: César Cui may have been referring to this quality in his 1897 review when he complained of "meaningless repetition of the same short tricks," but motivic analysits who have since studied the symphony have considered these "tricks" a compositional strength, not a weakness.
Split into simpler sentences: César Cui may have been referring to this quality in his 1897 review when he complained of "meaningless repetition of the same short tricks." Others have since considered these "tricks" a compositional strength, not a weakness.