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Richard Pennycuick wrote:
>The overture to Bastien et Bastienne, K50. There's certainly a similarity,
>but I wouldn't like to speculate whether Beethoven lifted it from WAM's
>overture.
Of course he didn't, as I elaborated in another posting.
>There are also slight thematic connections between Beethoven's
>3rd Piano Concerto and WAM's #24, but I don't think it's intentional.
If you mean K 491, then the similarities are there on purpose and entirely
consciously introduced. It's pretty well known that LvB modeled, in a
sense, his 3rd Pno Cto on WAM's c minor K 491.
>Just as well they don't live in these litigious times - they'd be writing
>potboilers to be able to pay their lawyers.
They wrote potboilers anyway.
-Margaret
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