Dear Euan,
I was talking to someone not long ago on a page of manuscript from 1784 in Mozart's own hand containing incipits of various works officially said to have been composed by him nearly 5 years later. And of various works by Michael Haydn (or, at least, not by Mozart) which stubbornly remain part of the main catalogue of Mozart's compositions. If I were to make a list of such anomalies I don't suppose anything would change - we would still love this music. That such things can be acknowledged individually and piled on top of one another without ever disturbing convention amazes me. But I think it teaches me something valuable - that geniuses of the sort that 'Mozart' represent are holograms which can survive virtually intact despite their absurdities.
I'm glad this body of work has at least the name of one person, since I love it as dearly now as ever.
Thanks for your goodwishes. I have no 'axe to grind' against Mozart Forum or any student of music and its history. And thanks for this exchange.
Robert
[This message has been edited by robert newman (edited 06-01-2006).]
I was talking to someone not long ago on a page of manuscript from 1784 in Mozart's own hand containing incipits of various works officially said to have been composed by him nearly 5 years later. And of various works by Michael Haydn (or, at least, not by Mozart) which stubbornly remain part of the main catalogue of Mozart's compositions. If I were to make a list of such anomalies I don't suppose anything would change - we would still love this music. That such things can be acknowledged individually and piled on top of one another without ever disturbing convention amazes me. But I think it teaches me something valuable - that geniuses of the sort that 'Mozart' represent are holograms which can survive virtually intact despite their absurdities.
I'm glad this body of work has at least the name of one person, since I love it as dearly now as ever.
Thanks for your goodwishes. I have no 'axe to grind' against Mozart Forum or any student of music and its history. And thanks for this exchange.
Robert
[This message has been edited by robert newman (edited 06-01-2006).]
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