On 13 Jan 2007 at 7:06, dhbailey wrote: > Johannes Gebauer wrote: > > On 13.01.2007 dhbailey wrote: > >> When Verdi died he was worshipped as a god, his funeral was a huge > >> state procession. > > > > Same with Beethoven and he wasn't exactly a very prolific opera > > composer. > > Which certainly decries the notion that these composers were only for > the wealthy -- they really spoke to the common person as well.
Tia DeNora would disagree with you on that: Beethoven and the Construction of Genius http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6537.html DeNora's most innovative interpretation is that Beethoven's music became increasingly individual and idiosyncratic and difficult as his patrons saw supporting him as a way of enhancing their own status. It was the very strangeness of his music that made their support of him something worthy of note -- it was the very fact that he *wasn't* catering to public taste that cemented his relationship with those patrons. So, however widespread the admiration of Beethoven at his death, it was likely not based on the music he wrote in his last 10 years. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
