On Wednesday, February 9, 2005, at 03:02 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
I cannot think of a single composer, in any genre, who having been considered great at the age of 150, came to be considered insignificant, or even minor, at any later time.
Composers, living or dead, do tend to go out of fashion around age 75. Formerly, this led inexorably to oblivion, but since ca. 1780, those of lasting merit get rehabilitated after a few decades in the doghouse. As far as I can see, this is a one-time, one-way process.
That is an astonishing concept! (And I don't mean that badly, I just had never heard it before!) It takes a musicologist with a huge amount of study and information to be able to see a trend like that and express it so clearly. Maybe I am so impressed because I can't do that, but I am impressed just the same.
Christopher
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