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Geoffrey Gaskell ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>Kevin Sutton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>Rostropovich, on the other hand, could have easily had a career as a
>>concert pianist. He plays beautifully,
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>I believe the violinists Heifetz & Kreisler were also both extremely
>competent pianists.
Egon Petri began as a violinist and was good enough to play in a quartet
With his father, leader of the Leipzig Gewandhaus and maybe (can't find
the reference) in the LGO itself.
>I suppose we may as well all take this opportunity to come up with a
>Homeric Catalogue of Alternative Competencies (whether musical or not)
>of great composers and performing musicians.
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>Xenakis, for example, was also an excellent mathematician, not
>surprisingly, & could have become a great architect. Furtwaengler thought
>of himself more as a composer than as a conductor & Gesualdo was a very
>competent murderer....
Not that competent - he got found out...:-)
Borodin was a chemist, was he not, and one of the other 19th century
Russians was an engineer or something similar.
deryk barker
([log in to unmask], http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~dbarker)
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