In Reply to: Apology... posted by genungo on July 6, 2016 at 12:46:21:
So many people ask, "Why can't composers write music like Mozart?" And of course, the answer is: Many composers today can write convincingly in Mozart's style. But that doesn't mean they can produce something comparable to the Jupiter Symphony or the G minor viola quintet.
I now realize, your original observation was a much different and better one.
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Follow Ups
- And any insult was sincerely unintentional. - rbolaw 13:13:54 07/06/16 (15)
- "Many composers today can write convincingly in Mozart's style" - Chris from Lafayette 13:35:30 07/06/16 (14)
- Nah. - rbolaw 13:45:32 07/06/16 (13)
- Well, OK - but remember. . . - Chris from Lafayette 15:04:44 07/06/16 (12)
- RE: Well, OK - but remember. . . - rbolaw 17:14:15 07/06/16 (1)
- I knew you were going to bring up Kreisler! ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 17:36:33 07/06/16 (0)
- The computer thing has been done. - D Harvey 15:38:49 07/06/16 (9)
- Yeah - I remember that - Chris from Lafayette 17:22:15 07/06/16 (0)
- Spot on, yet again. - rbolaw 16:49:08 07/06/16 (7)
- "I've never thought of any work of art as unsurpassable perfection" - Chris from Lafayette 17:29:40 07/06/16 (6)
- You mean Beethoven influenced later composers??? ;-) - rbolaw 20:29:53 07/06/16 (5)
- Context, context, context - Chris from Lafayette 23:16:52 07/06/16 (4)
- Rochberg didn't really write in Beethoven's or Mahler's styles - rbolaw 06:37:26 07/07/16 (3)
- So Rochberg's music is "an inevitably imperfect copy" therefore "even more disappointing"? - Chris from Lafayette 08:42:37 07/07/16 (2)
- RE: So Rochberg's music is "an inevitably imperfect copy" therefore "even more disappointing"? - rbolaw 10:06:22 07/07/16 (1)
- The thing that makes Rochberg so controversial. . . - Chris from Lafayette 11:30:48 07/07/16 (0)