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Re: More on Gibbons; GG and Mozart
On 26 August 1996, Eugene Selig wrote:
>he wrote an article for the now-defunct magazine
>"Piano Quarterly" with the title "Why Mozart is not a great composer."
>In it, he used examples from one of the piano concertos actually, showing
>some modulations that would have given a harmony student a poor grade. GG
>was right! Keep in mind, the concertos contained far loftier writing than
>the sonatas, which were created mostly for M's students, while the
>concertos were written as perfomance vehicles for M. himself.
I agree entirely with Gould's opinions of Mozart. I can't stand him and
I wish he wasn't so popular. But I remember that somewhere Gould said (about
Mozart) something to the extent of:
"I love the early works and the middle works, it's the late works I cannot
stand."
I'm sure the quote is not exactly correct, but I know I have the gist of it.
Doesn't this go against everything GG had previously criticized about M?
-David