Robert Peters <[log in to unmask]> writes: >Walter Meyer wrote: > >>Finally, assume that Mozart, born in 1956, were to exhibit the same >>precocity, and compose the same works that he had actually composed two >>hundred years earlier. > >You mean exactly the same works, note for note? The critics would call >them old-fashioned stuff and right they would be. Great music is great music, regardless of when it was written. Whenever critics adopt such a self-inflated role, I cannot help but think of the eunuch analogy. All the critics combined have not contributed to music as much as even a single, semi-talented composer. Jocelyn Wang Culver Chamber Music Series