Ed Zubrow:

>But I think we sohould not forget that musical merit is derived from a
>composer's creative effort to speak to the historical and social issues
>of existence in his/her time.

I don't think that this is the actual "musical" merit of a composer.  This
seems to be an historical (ie:  romantic) deffinition of "merit", since
it's easier to apply it to Mahler than to Sweelinck.

Pablo Massa
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