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Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 26 Oct 2003 12:31:34 -0800
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Ramon Khalona wrote:

>To say that he died too late implies that he was past his prime or that,
>at the very least, his late works do not measure up to his earlier ones.

I think that that is precisely the way Gould felt: the contrapuntal style
he detected in Mozart's earlier music gave way to a more melodic/harmonic
style which GG hated.

Thanks for not shooting the messenger though: I don't agree with him
either.

Deryk Barker
dbarker @camosun.bc.ca

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