Glen Miller wrote:
>I was wondering what the list members felt was the one composer they
>would like to have seen lived longer.
This is all speculation since you never know what would go on with a
person if he/she lived additional years. I'd have to select Mozart.
His music was definitely in a continual state of maturation, his later
works possessing a gravity and complexity that tempts one to think of how
great any additional works would have been. I just think of more operas,
concertos, sacred works, and chamber music coming from his pen. It's a
little depressing - nothing more will come. His death, of course, was a
catstrophe to his family members. That it impacts on me and millions of
others at the end of the 20th Century is quite a tribute to the man.
Don Satz
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