Mats Norrman replies to me replying to him: >>"Forest Murmurs" from Siegfried is Impressionism before Debussy. >>Tristan's mad scene is Expressionism before Mahler or Schoenberg. To >>a great extent, the vocabulary (and the idea of what constitutes music) >>of both Expressionism and Impressionism comes from those earlier pieces. >>That's the argument Mitchell makes. I find it pretty convincing. > >How does he (or you, or somebody else) describes the characteristicas >for Imressionist music resp. Expressionist music as differs from plain >romantic? Read the essay. >>I've never heard any orchestral work by Gade, including the op. 1. >>I've heard a bit of chamber music, however. It didn't do very much for >>me, I'm afraid. I found it "nice," but that was it. > >Isn't it a little picky to make such a statement with having heard so >little? I suggest take a listen to "Elverskud" and "Fruehlingsphantasie". Of course it's picky, but nobody likes everything. Steve Schwartz