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Chris Bonds <[log in to unmask]> writes within brackets:
>e.g. the urban "gypsy" music that Brahms knew so well, and that perhaps
>only he could use as a source of inspiration so knowingly--with Liszt it
>was always more of an exotic side trip, I think--but it was in Brahms's
>bones--
I don't know how you are thinking Brahms knew Hungarian Gypsy music
well...Brahms had a for his time great knowledge of other composers works
right, but I didn't know of that he was particualry interested in Hungarian
Gypsy folk music. Look, he never made any resarch in Hunagrian folk music,
or folk music at all, he never even visited Hungary. He composed those
Hungarian Dances, and made a colourful orchestration to each, but that was
to sell his music in the West, with melodies that sounds stereotype
resembling of Hungarian melodies, without in reality have any connection
with genuine Hungarian or Gypsy melodies.
Thank you by the way for your nice post "Romanticism".
James Zehm
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