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Kevin Sutton wrote:
>Great music like Bach will survive. It may fall into occasional
>disuse, but it is of sufficient artistic merit to come back and hold
>its own. I don't think that you can say this of Salieri, Thalberg,
>MacDowell, Kuhlau and many others of the second string ilk. (Now
>I await the tirades from fans of the above mentioned.)
No tirades from me. Although there are a mess load of second string
composers I like very much (Kuhlau included), I do not consider them great
composers. I like to think I know the difference. Even though I don't
appreciate Liszt and Tchaikovsky, I'm well aware that they were no second
stringers. The loss of a great composer's music would have so much more
impact on me than the second stringer's.
Since I have the time, here's my current list of favorite second stringers;
some of them might be third string:
Zelenka - Buxtehude - Planicky - Krommer - Kuhlau - Spohr - JPE Hartmann -
Reicha - Lortzing - Hamerik - Marek - Pfitzner - Schmidt -Schillings -
Zemlinsky - Sauget - Gade - Onslow - Borresen - Hill - Hummel - Dotzauer.
There's often a lack of consistency of excellence with these composers, but
when they're "on", they are well worth the time and money.
Don Satz
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