Steve Schwartz wrote concerning composers writing in the "style of a master": >>Let's take it from the other end. Suppose you came across a piece of >>music and you didn't know the composer. The only thing you could say >>about it was that it was written in a late Classical style. Do you really >>have to know who the composer is before you can decide whether it's any >>good? Bernard Chasan responded: >Of course not, if the work were an authentic contemporary product of >the classical era. But if the work was a recent imitation, no!!! As long as a composer does not put someone elses name on the work, why not try to enjoy the music for itself? Weren't a lot of composers influenced by Mozart or Haydn? Is a classical composition, for example, valid only if it was written during the years 1750 to 1820? I would love to hear a modern piece written in the baroque or classical style. Ron Chaplin Iselin, New Jersey, USA