Karl Miller wrote: >Robert Peters wrote: > >>Beethoven would have written different music if he had had a loving wife >>and no hearing problems or had lived just fifty years later. > >Or if prozac had been available! But, for me, I am glad it was not as >I doubt his music would have been able to touch me in the same way, or >as deeply. I totally agree. On the one hand I often think: the guy deserved more happiness in his life. But then he would have written different music, maybe no Fidelio - which I would miss dearly. Selfish thought, isnt it? >For me, every musician has some vanity, or something close to that >notion...otherwise, why would they think someone would be willing to >spend X number of minutes listening to their work, assuming that notion >ever conciously crosses their mind. Perhaps it is a fine line between >a "healthy" sense of self worth and vanity. Good definition. In my eyes Liszt crossed that line and I simply dislike this. Robert