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In Reply to: RE: I enjoy it myself, but. . . posted by Chris from Lafayette on March 26, 2015 at 10:32:47
Plenty of Beethoven's music was received with harsh criticism, and it didn't appear to faze him. From what I've read, he agreed to have the maligned Grosse Fuge published as a separate piece and compose something to replace it in his Op. 130 quartet only because his publisher paid him to do that. He was always happy to churn something out, even less-than-masterpiece caliber work in some cases, if there was money to be made, so it doesn't necessarily reflect his thinking on the subject, imo.
Most modern audiences are much less tolerant of marathon-length pieces or concerts than they were in Beethoven's day, so it's somewhat a moot point, but I agree with you that the shorter version of Op. 130 works better in performance.
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. . . we seem to be more worried about proportionality in Beethoven's works. But when Mahler writes marathon length symphonies, we eat it up. And, for the most part, I don't mind the often unequal dimensions of the Mahler symphonies myself. (Or Bruckner for that matter - I always find it interesting that the first two movements of Bruckner's Eighth last about 15 minutes each, while the last two movements last about 25 minutes each - very unusual proportions for a symphony. And again, AFAIC, it's all good!)
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