dhbailey wrote:
Writing music you detest to put bread on your
table is selling out (think of those horrid
German Dances and countless Minuets which
Beethoven and Mozart wrote to put bread on
their table) but writing music which you
believe in but is tailored to someone's
specific needs so they buy it is quite
different.
You mean Ländler? Nothing horrid about Haydn's
use in symphonies in place of minuets (or Richard
Rodgers' in "Sound of Music" come to that). And
countless minuets? It was only the single most
popular social and theatrical dance of the 18th
century, and remained so until it was displaced
by the Waltz in the 19th. And Mozart, Haydn and
Beethoven wrote them very well indeed.
John
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