Deryk Barker wrote:

>Well, without getting into the argument (I'd nominate Mahler and probably
>Tchaikovsky), perhaps we can agree that Berlioz essentially invented the
>art of orchestration.

I don't agree.  He perhaps brought it to a new level in the nineteenth
century, but I think that ole JSB knew what he was doing.  There are
some magnificent intentional color choices in the cantatas.

KS