Stirling Newberry <[log in to unmask]> replies to Kevin Stutton:

>The Creation seems to have been remarkably well accepted
>in both Vienna and in London.  This isn't the only case where one can point
>to Haydn engaging in some very far reaching harmonic moves that, none the
>less, seemed not to have raised many eyebrows.  It is, some would argue,
>part of what makes him a great composer.

I could think also that the dissonants in "Die Schoepfung" were easylier
accepted by the audience as they came in a context (in the work) that
properly was described through dissonance.

Mats Norrman
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