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Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music
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Kieren MacMillan |
Subject: |
Re: [OT] Vivi, the Virtual Violinist, plays LilyPond music |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:35:37 -0400 |
Hi Trevor,
>> There must be examples in both directions, of course: "bad stuff" surviving
>> (even thriving!), and "good stuff" disappearing.
>
> Didn't Bach's compositions vanish from the wider public
> for c. 100 years until Mendelssohn discovered and revived
> his St Matthew Passion?
Yes.
> Of course, we can't know about "good stuff" that vanished and has not been
> rediscovered :)
Have you ever heard Mozart's son's piano music? There are some pieces
(especially the Mazurkas) which are clearly superior in construction and
emotional depth to many of the more popular -- and thus, by Graham's
definition, "better" -- pieces of other composers.
Cheers,
Kieren.
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