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In Reply to: RE: Nice to see some momentum behind a 4 movement 9th posted by TGR on January 05, 2017 at 14:57:02
They are free to "disagree, emphatically" all they want -- just so that they are aware, therefore, they are placing their personal taste above the declared wishes of Bruckner himself. That historical fact can not be ignored.
John Proffitt
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. . . (I forget who it was), who strenuously opposed trying to perform the fourth movement of the Ninth Symphony, because, as he claimed, it would be the height of arrogance for someone to try to complete Bruckner's greatest fugue for him! ;-)
I would pose one question to the biographer, or to anyone who takes this position: would you then discard the Mozart Requiem, Puccini's Turandot, Mahler's 10th, Bartok's Viola Concerto, etc. because other hands had the "arrogance" to bring to a reasonably completed form that which the composer was unable to finish due to death? I think not.
John Proffitt
I mean, he was practically holy! A Saint!* Oh! The sacrilege of someone else's completing the last movement of the Ninth!
*Well, except for his preference for 16-year-old girls.
Hah! Very true.
John Proffitt
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