I wonder why the great composers never seem to have teamed up as collaborators? I'm not talking about variation or transcription works, but actually composing new music together. Okay, Beethoven never had a contemporary of anything like equal status, but I can't think why, for example, Haydn and Mozart never tried it, esp. when one considers that they were great friends together in Vienna, and Mozart did find String Quartet writing difficult.
And what about Liszt and Chopin? Stylistically, more problematical a proposition I know, but interesting to contemplate, nevertheless.
And what about the Strauses? (Yes I know, Rod: What about them?). Tchaikovsky and Brahms? Mendelssohn and Schubert? The Bach family?
And what about Liszt and Chopin? Stylistically, more problematical a proposition I know, but interesting to contemplate, nevertheless.
And what about the Strauses? (Yes I know, Rod: What about them?). Tchaikovsky and Brahms? Mendelssohn and Schubert? The Bach family?
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