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Don Satz on hysteria:
>This is a subjective area, and also depends on how one defines hysteria.
>Bypassing the "clinical" element of the word, I define hysteria as
>"emotional excess." I believe that this definition applies very well to
>Tchaikovsky whose music, to my ears, often flies into the excessive
>category for no reason I can gather other than it reflected his basic
>insecurities.
Could you be more specific? I think his climaxes are well prepared and
motivated, that's why I don't consider them excessive.
>There is nothing in Haydn's output that I sense to be hysterical in theme
>or content. After all, it's the "classical" period.
In his fast movements there's almost an excessive happiness on the verge
to hysteria. Hysterical happiness, Haydn is going in a spin.....
As you probably understand, I think hysteria is something positive (at
least in music).
Mikael
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