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From: anderson@uwvax.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Poor composers or poor listener (mild flame)
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Date: Mon, 14-May-84 02:58:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 14 02:58:26 1984
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From a recent article here:

 >  
 > How about composers whose music is much worse than it sounds?
 > I would nominate Vivaldi*, Beethoven, Listz, Verdi, and Mahler. 
 > (Bruckner, Meyerbeer, Franck, Delius, and Resphigi are beneath
 > consideration!)
 >  
 > *Of whom Stravinsky said, "He wrote one cncerto 100 times".
-- houxm!dis2

I am tired of hearing remarks like this.  Music doesn't survive hundreds
of years unless there's something to it.  What exactly do you mean by
"worse than it sounds"?  That the music didn't make some sort of music-
theoretical or philosophical advance?  I suspect it merely means that you don't
happen to be into it and/or that you have not studied it in any sense.
So please, let's leave blanket condemnations of composers and/or styles
to the devotees of "awesomeness" in net.music.


David Anderson (one of many)  wisc-rsch!anderson