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Steve Schwartz wrote concerning composers writing in the "style of a
master":
>>... Suppose you came across a piece of music and you didn't know the
>>composer. The only thing you could say about it was that it was written
>>in a late Classical style. Do you really have to know who the composer
>>is before you can decide whether it's any good?
Ron Chaplin responded:
>As long as a composer does not put someone elses name on the work, why not
>try to enjoy the music for itself? Weren't a lot of composers influenced by
>Mozart or Haydn? Is a classical composition, for example, valid only if it
>was written during the years 1750 to 1820? I would love to hear a modern
>piece written in the baroque or classical style.
And indeed you have Bloch's Concerto Grosso, and Prokofiev's Classical
Symphony and many other fine works by twentieth century composers invoking
an ealier style. But they use their own voices!!!! They do not produce
another Handel Concert Grosso or another Mozart symphony!!! And I assume
that since you want to "hear a modern piece written in the classical
style", you would not want such a forgeries.
Bernard Chasan
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