Johannes Gebauer wrote:
At the risk of making enemies: I have already had enough of it. Mozart
has been all that interests the music world since the year began, and by
the looks of it, we'll have the same, very superficial "Everyone loves
MOzart" thing until the end of the year.
Last year was the 200th birthday of Fanny Hensel, probably the most
influencial woman composer ever, and noone noticed. Same for
Boccherini's bicentenary.
This year is also the 150th anniversary of Robert Schumann's death,
which sort of gets lost in all that Mozart Hype.
This year is also the bicentenary of Michael Haydn's death, a much
underrated composer, but he is a little unlucky to have died exactly 50
years after Mozart was born.
Not that I don't like Mozart...
Johannes
Not to mention that this is also the year that many fine LIVING
composers will write masterpieces which will never be heard in public
because of all the programming time given to Mozart.
This is also the year in which some new wunderkind of composition is
being born but she will never get the chance to hear most of her
compositions performed because when she turns 20 the world will be
celebrating the 270th anniversary of Mozart's birth, and when she turns
30 the world will be celebrating the 230th anniversary of Mozart's
birth. And in between those years, her music won't be heard because the
world will be celebrating anniversarys of Mozart's death. And of his
first ingrown toenail.
To say nothing of all those other megamilestones of long-dead composers'
lives.
It's time to get over it, let Mozart's music be programmed in moderation
as all other music should be, and stop making such a fuss over someone
just because he's been dead for so long! Like it's a surprise or something?
It's time we start celebrating the LIVING composers, those who are
chronicling OUR TIMES in their music, reflecting OUR LIVES in their art.
--
David H. Bailey
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