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