Pablo Massa wrote:

>If those professors accused the works of this boy of being "pastiche", then
>it's possible that they were not too skilfully written after all.  ...
>
>I throw a glove: whom among listers would like to write or play a perfect
>stylistic copy of any period?.  I'm open to interchange MIDI files and
>commentaries.

Perhaps it would be well here to recall my original inquiry.  Under my
hypothesis, unless Mozart's works would be considered a pastiche of Haydn
and M's other contemporaries, Mozart, now born in 1956 but in my hypothesis
composing only now the same works that he had in actuality composed two
hundred years earlier, could not have composed pastiches.  The works of
Mozart of which some suggest his works would sound like pastiche would
never have been written before.

How, then, would the public accept his symphonies, concertos, chamber
music, choral music, operas, and works in any other medium that I may have
overlooked? Would they indeed be considered pastiches of Haydn, Salieri,
Hummel, or Dittersdorf? If so now, why not then?

Walter Meyer