Tim Horwood ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Daniel Beland wrote:
>
>>>Truscott - Elegy
>>
>>Can you tell me more about this composer? I suppose he's British:-)
>
>Yes of course! There are web links at
>
>http://www.musicweb.uk.net/Truscott/index.htm
>http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/horwood/
>
>He is best known for his writing on music.  I first came across him when
>reading The Symphony ed.  R Simpson where he wrote about Havergal Brian.

And the chapters on Sibelius, Schmidt and Mahler, the last of which contains
the follolwing, IMHO wonderfully perceptive remark:

   of this [the 9th symphony] I will say only that the great and unearthly
   Rondo-song which forms its first movement is a rare example of music
   influenced by Beethoven's last period.

deryk barker
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