At 1:36 PM -0500 1/11/07, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Gluck? CPE Bach? WF Bach? Boring?
Hey, I'm bored by Mozart's piano concertos, but I don't make the
mistake of thinking that's Mozart's problem!
Someone in grad school pointed out that you have to hit "Mozart
readiness." Some hit it early, some late, and some not at all.
And Ralph Kirkpatrick commented at a lecture-demonstration that he
found it refreshing to approach Mozart from Bach, and not back
"through a haze of Beethoven"!
In the very good Arts & Entertainment Mozart biography, someone (it
may have been Robert Marshall) played a little minuet that's supposed
to be the earliest piece by Wolfie and said that whenever he played
it for anyone and asked them to identify it, they hazarded that it
might be something from a late opera but had no question but that it
was by Mozart. Sort of puts the "early music was childish" argument
in perspective.
John
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