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Robert Peters:
>Actually I think that a lot of Strausss and Orffs music is pretty hollow.
>And I see music as a mirror for character: Beethovens fervent energy,
>Mozarts vitality, Schuberts friendliness, Wagners hysterical eccentricity
>- they are there in the movie. And Strauss and Orff are in their music,
>too.
And so Strauss is "in" the Four Last Songs and a lot of other deeply
felt music. which, I suspect, Robert would NOT characterize as hollow.
Life is complicated.
As for Schubert, yes, "friendliness " might well be applied to the Trout
Quintet and a lot else, but it misses the mark in Die Winterreise and
the Erl King, among many other examples.
Bernard Chasan
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