Walter Meyer:

>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.

Well, hearing his works, a lot of people would say: hey, what a good
Cimarosa wrote this guy!!!

>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?

Because "pastiche" is a contemporary notion.  Better:  a contemporary
prejudice.

Pablo Massa
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