[lit-ideas] Re: Why are the greatest composers all German?
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- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 22:36:33 EDT
On what basis is the term "greatest" used? What are the criteria?
Julie Krueger
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Mike: And it is nonsense. Vivaldi, Verdi ... Paderewsky [!
-I mean, the Minuet in G is okay but he's hardly a composer
at all.] not Rosetti [Who? You mean the poet/painter?] etc.
Mike, you knee-jerked. The guy was fiddling with his theory
about the "greatest" composers. Hence Elgar, Smetana, et
al., weren't considered. If you had read more of the
article, though, I think you would have found less with
which to disagree.
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