Rick Mabry wrote:

>We have a winner!  (Well, I'm calling it such, despite the hedging "could
>be".)

>Nice going, Jon Gallant! (Dave, tell him what he's won...)
>
>[A great big virtual pat on the back.  -Dave]

Thanks, Rick and Dave.  I hedged because I did not actually listen to
the snippet, due to the limitations of my prehistoric dial-up connection
and antique wood-burning, text-only browser.

Yeah, Mme. Farrenc wrote a lot of beautiful although basically derivative
music.  It is a fine thing that CDs have permitted us to discover all
these expert, unoriginal second-drawer composers.  I recently rediscovered
another one.  In my youth, I studied piano, and developed a horror of
the very name Czerny, the fiend who wrote those awful exercizes we all
had to play.  Imagine my surprise to find that Carl Czerny wrote solid,
stirring well-thought-out symphonic music in essentially the language
of his mentor, one L. Beethoven.

Jon Gallant
Department of Gnome Sciences
University of Washington