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Bob Draper wrote about Mozart's counterpoint:
>The pundits seem to be awarding plaudits to M for this line of approach
>but to me the result seems messy. There's much too much going on in 'late'
>Mozart for my liking as the man seeks to impress. The musicians seem to be
>having a battle with each other.
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>The man WAS right "too many notes"!
Well, there may have been a point when WAM wrote "too many notes", but
I tend to place that more in his earlier years, not his late ones. The
Jupiter was written ca. 1788, and he had 3+ more years to go.
When I listen to works like Zauberflote, the Clarinet Quintet and
Concerto, the final Piano Concerto, the works for glass harmonica, "Ave
Verum Corpus", and even the Requiem, I don't hear a lot of "battling"
counterpoint or flashiness. IIRC, Rosen has also mentioned this sparser
style of writing in his book "The Classical Style".
Bill H.
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