Olivier Solanet wrote:

>....
>As for Beethoven, my opinion is categoric and immutable.  I think the
>man was a b**tard, and his music inevitably comes out sounding that way.

You are beyond redemption. You have my sympathies.

>...  Please don't misread me.  I will be the first to concede
>to Mozart's genius, but it's time to move on.  I'll admit that ten years
>ago, when I was 18, I simply couldn't understand Mozart.

Ah, well you have time.

>My piano and musicology professors would tell me that I was too young
>to appreciate or understand Mozart.  I replied that I would never fathom
>this obsession with this particular Austrian.  Yet, I was wrong, and my
>professors, of course, were entirely correct.  It's only been about a
>year since I've begun to appreciate the intricate subtlties that comprise
>his genius.

But they were wrong about Beethoven?

Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>

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