> Beethoven is sometimes said to have attended a guitar recital by Giuliani. If he did, of course, he heard nothing! He even wrote a little note to > one of his Viennese publishers, asking "please give my regards to Giuliani." Of course, the publisher's Giuliani might be the guy who polished up the brass > on the big front door. The guitarist Giuliani played 'cello in the first performance of the Seventh Symphony, but I imagine Beethoven didn't hear him that > time, either. He wasn't asked back to play in the Eighth. The point? There's no factual basis for the belief common in the guitar world that Giuliani > influenced Beethoven. They may never even have spoken to one another. In fact Giuliani's music is so "memorable" that it couldn't influence ANYONE.......... RT
To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
