Robert Peters <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>Walter Meyer wrote:
>
>>Finally, assume that Mozart, born in 1956, were to exhibit the same
>>precocity, and compose the same works that he had actually composed two
>>hundred years earlier.
>
>You mean exactly the same works, note for note? The critics would call
>them old-fashioned stuff and right they would be.

Great music is great music, regardless of when it was written.

Whenever critics adopt such a self-inflated role, I cannot help but think
of the eunuch analogy.  All the critics combined have not contributed to
music as much as even a single, semi-talented composer.

Jocelyn Wang
Culver Chamber Music Series