Pablo Massa wrote:
>Actually, great part of the training of a composer consist (or consisted,
>perhaps) of writing in the style of a long dead master. The problem
>--which is not very simple-- is when does a composer really "starts off"?.
>Did Beethoven start off at his op. 1 trios?. He wasn't serious until the
>Eroica?. I ve heard recently Bruckner's Requiem, written at the age of 24.
>The work is full of Haydn, and is not the best of Bruckner, surely; but
>nobody can say that the youngman who wrote it wasn't a serious composer.
This is a little off the subject but I must tell you that on my Ph.D.
comps I had to identify scores. There was a Mass that I identified as by
Haydn (I was guessing), and was later told it was Bruckner. The tip-off?
All Haydn's masses have continuo!
Chris Bonds