Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>:
>I believe RVW acknowledged using Beethoven 5 as the structural model for
>his 4th symphony. Incidentally, although that 4-note theme has sometimes
>been mistaken for BACH, it's actually BAHB.
Now lets see here. My theory goes that a composer leave unintentionally
his deepest obssessions in Freudian circumscription in the music. So Reger
loved the old contrapunctial masters and wrote B-A-C-H. Sjostakovitj loved
himself and came up with D-Eb-C-H. RVW seemingly was obsessed with babble
B-A-H-B. Had Casanova lived today we could perhaps have proven this
thesis, had he with a pen in his hand and lined paper at hand came up with
a B-A-B-E motif:-)
Mats Norrman
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