Walter Meyer: >Under my hypothesis, unless Mozart's works would be considered a pastiche >of Haydn and M's other contemporaries, Mozart, now born in 1956 but in >my hypothesis composing only now the same works that he had in actuality >composed two hundred years earlier, could not have composed pastiches. The >works of Mozart of which some suggest his works would sound like pastiche >would never have been written before. Well, hearing his works, a lot of people would say: hey, what a good Cimarosa wrote this guy!!! >How, then, would the public accept his symphonies, concertos, chamber >music, choral music, operas, and works in any other medium that I may have >overlooked? Would they indeed be considered pastiches of Haydn, Salieri, >Hummel, or Dittersdorf? If so now, why not then? Because "pastiche" is a contemporary notion. Better: a contemporary prejudice. Pablo Massa [log in to unmask]